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Citp Puilbtrg 



J^epresentatibe jUiggouriang 




St. Louisans with Records 

City Builders 



Representative Missourians 



Respectfully Dedicated to those Self-made men in all 
Professions and Industries who have achieved 
success as a result of Self-application and Persever- 
ance in daily life. 

— The Author. 




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PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME 



Not compiled as a biographical history, but intended merely to give to the 
country at large, an insight into the lives and accomplishments of residents of 
St. Louis, who have helped to ' make" the great fourth city. — For private 
distribution. 



Compiled and Edited 
By 

HARRY J. BOSWELL 

ST. LOUIS, MO. 
1911 



BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION. 






In the following pages, which I 
have spent several months preparing, 
will be found not only absolutely ac- 
curate statistical matter pertaining to 
St. Louis, a practical resume, I might 
say, of the city's marvelous progress 
within the past ten years, but reviews 
of the records of a limited number of 
the foremost business and professional 
men. 

I do not wish to convey the meaning 
that in St. Louis are to be found only 
the number of representative men 
whose records I have prepared. There 
are, in fact, perhaps many times as 
many more, and had I not determined 
upon publishing only a small volume, 
a "booklet" would be a better term 
to use, I would have included them 
all, but there had to be a limit some- 
where, and to avoid confusion, I estab- 
lished that limit before writing a line 
in preparation of the work. 

I do not wish to convey the impres- 
sion that, in my own opinion, the lim- 
ited number of men to whom I have 
made personal reference in this work 



are the only representative ones in 
the "fourth city," or are superior to 
all others. Such is far from being 
true. I do say, however, that they 
are highly representative, and may 
be readily accepted as an indication 
of the character of those who have 
made St. Louis the great commercial 
metropolis that she is today. 

I know from my own observations 
and investigations that every record 
in this volume stands upon its own 
merits, whether it applies to physician, 
lawyer, banker, merchant or other- 
wise, and I feel that I can with due 
modesty say that I am proud of my 
efforts in the issuance of this interest- 
ing little volume. 

Sincerely and respectfully, 




ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI (The Fourth City), 
HER MARVELOUS PROGRESS. 



Founded in 1764 as fur trading post. 

Became part of United States in 
1803. 

Incorporated as a city in 1809. 

Population in 1910, United States 
census, 761,000. 

Area, 62.5 square miles. 

Climatic conditions, temperatures, 
winter, 31.4; summer, 79.1. 

Mortality, official record, 13.56 per 
1000. 

Largest horse and mule market in 
the world, 140,000 head annually. 

Second largest live stock market in 
the world, 1,700,000 head annually. 

Third largest grain center in the 
world, 65,000,000 bushels annually. 

Stands fourth in manufactures, 3000 
factories, and having output of $350,- 
000,000 annually. 

Thirty railroads entering city, and 
many large river steamers. 

Cheapest fuel in the world. 

Largest shoe market in the world, 
$20,000,000 production annually. 

Largest breweries in the world, 
3,500,000 barrels annually. 

Large tobacco market, $30,000,000 
products annually. 

Drygoods sales, $80,000,000 annually. 



Hardware sales, $55,000,000 annu- 
ally. 

New buildings erected during past 
four (4) years, with combined valu- 
ation of $100,000,000. 

St. Louis bank stock, 392,000 shares, 
held by 7,751 people, valued at $101,- 
891,000. 

Street railw-ay system, 455 miles; 
1,262 cars, carried enormous number 
of 211,459,570 passengers; large in- 
terurban line, with trackage of 500 
miles, enters city. 

Bank clearings, $3,727,949,379 in 
1910. 

Freight tonnage, 51,918,100 in 1910. 

Factory products, $327,676,000 in 
1910. 

Assessed valuation, real and per- 
sonal, $565,725,320 in 1910. 

In the foregoing I submit statistical 
matter that will stand on a par with 
that given in connection with all other 
large cities of this country ,and which 
will, in many instances, be found far 
in advance of others. It speaks for 
itself, and figures given I will be glad 
to substantiate at any time. 



JOSEPH WINGATE FOLK. 



Wliilst ".hroiigh ".r.;.- . .:, -r are to 
be found comments I- s.:.r.^ upon ilie 
life-records of many ci lic i^ore repre- 
seniaiive citizens, business and pro- 
fessional men of Si. Louis, each of 
which I hare endeavored to prepare 
with absolute accuracy, and on which 
I hare expended considerable time 
in my invesiigations. there is not one 
that has given the author more 
genuine pleasure in its writing than 
that of Hon. Joseph Wingaie Folk, 
whose career as circuit attorney, fol- 
lowed by four years as the state's 
chief executive, is still fresh in the 
minds of the public. 

He is a native of Tennessee, hav- 
ing been bom in the old Folk mansion 
at Brownsville in 1869. After attend- 
ing the ordinary schools of his home 
town he entered Vanderbilt University 
at Nashville, Tenn., from which he 
graduated, after taking the full course 
in law, in 1890. Immediately follow- 
ing his graduation he returned to 
Brownsville, where he began the prac- 
tice of his profession. He was desirous, 
however ,of entering larger territory 
and accordingly he removed to St. 
Louis. 

Being an able lawyer and a man 
of forceful delivery in argument be- 
fore court and jury, he was not long 
in building up a splendid practice. In 
the course of this he was retained as 
the counsel of some advocates of 
organized or unionized labor. The 
litigation in which his clients were 
involved was of such character as to 
attract much attention throughout the 
city, the manner in which the young 
attorney handled it creating much 
favorable comment. 

Shortly afterwards, due to the 
straightforward tactics of the lawyer. 
Governor Folk was made the nominee 
for circuit attorney on the Democratic 
ticket. The campaign of that year is 
still well remembered by voters of St. 
Louis. Folk was elected and then 
begun one of the greatest legal battles 
ever fought. He served in that ca- 
pacity four years and during that 
period he unearthed more rascality 
and thievery, boodling and graft in St. 
Louis than has ever been exposed in 
a given time in any other part of the 
world. 

But he went after it with a vim 
and a determination, notwithstanding 
he was importuned by political friends 
and others to drop it, while anony- 
mous letters, threatening assassina- 
tion and annihilation poured in upon 



him by the bucketful. To all these 
the young circuit attorney paid no 
heed. 

The result of Folk's activity resulted 
in his causing a large number of 
arrests, of which twenty-one were con- 
victed. While on technicalities, I find 
that the records show a number of 
these were released by the highest 
state tribunal, the Missouri Supreme 
court, the rest went to state prison at 
Jefferson City for their crimes. 

Fcik scon realized, that there was 
but one way in which he c-ould remove 
many of the strong obstacles that 
marred his pathway, and that was 
through the office of governor. Hence 
he made up his mind to appeal to the 
people, and before them he laid his 
case. Joseph Wingate Folk walked 
into the governor's office with a ma- 
jority back of him of thirty odd thou- 
sand. Roosevelt, that same year, 
carried the state with about twenty- 
five thousand majority. His majority 
in St. Louis alone, where he had been 
fought every inch of the way, was 
more than ten thousand votes. 

When Governor Folk assumed 
charge as the state's chief executive 
he began in the same quiet, unostenta- 
tious manner as characterized his 
entry into the office of circuit attorney 
of St. Louis. He laid his plans deep 
and well and before launching his 
campaign for civic improvement he 
mastered the situation, keeping a gnp 
on every line he had out. 

Laws pertaining to railroad legisla- 
tion were framed and passed and are 
on the statute books today and are 
being readily obeyed, though it has 
been many months since Folk left the 
governor's office. On freight trains 
railroads are positively forbidden to 
work any man to exceed sixteen hours 
at any one time, the great black-list, 
the nightmare of railroad employes 
throtighout the country, was prohibited 
in this state, and instead when a man 
was discharged from service, the law 
required that he be given a letter 
showing why he was let out. 

Then came the beneficial demurrage 
charge law and trains forced to stop 
at all stations ordered by the com- 
missioners. The damage act law, 
limited to five thousand dollars was 
increased to double that amount re- 
coverable. Another great act was the 
compulsory educational law. Railway 
lobbyists were ordered to stay away 
from Jefferson City during legislative 
sessions, and the result of it all was 



that today no state in the entire Union 
of commonwealths can boast of a bet- 
ter set of laws than can Missouri. 

He secured the initative and refer- 
endum and a state wide primary law. 
Elections were made fair. Race 
track gambling in St. Louis and St. 
Louis county was put an end to, and 
the saloons readily regulated. All of 
this was done under the administra- 
tion of Governor Folk. Business 
greatly increased throughout the state, 
bank deposits, especially on Mondays, 
showed a most perceptible gain, and 



Sunday arrests were not near so 
numerous. 

Since Governor Folk retired from 
the governor's office he has taken up 
his private practice of law again. His 
offices are situated in the Pierce build- 
ing, on Fourth street. 

During the past two years scarcely 
anyone has appeared more in the pub- 
lic eye. On hundreds of lecture plat- 
forms throughout the country Gov- 
ernor Folk has appeared. His earnest- 
ness, his flow of language, as well as 
the convincing manner in which he 
expresses his thought, is a gift 
possessed by few. 



JUDGE HENRY SAMUEL PRIEST. 



A Missourian by birth, a legal prac- 
titioner in this city since 1881, and a 
man who has met with unprecedented 
success. I know of no man in St. Louis 
who stands higher in the esteem of his 
fellow men than Judge Henry Samuel 
Priest. 

Judge Priest was born in Ralls 
County February 7, 1853, his parents 
coming from Virginia and Kentucky, 
both great states of the old Southland. 
In his early life young Priest attended 
ordinary schools and afterwards en- 
tered Westminster College, located at 
Fulton, this state. From that well 
known institution he graduated, being 
a member of the class of 1872. 

Following this, with Major M, E, 
Houston, of Taylorsville, Ky., as his 
preceptor, young Priest entered upon 
the study of law, later continuing his 
reading in the office of one of the best 
known railroad lawyers in the country, 
Judge James Carr, of Hannibal, Mo. 

Judge Priest was admitted to the bar 
for the general practice of law in 1873, 
after which he went to Moberly, Mo., 
and there opened his first office. He 
had been there but a comparatively 
brief period when he appeared in a 
number of cases in which were in- 
volved many of the most difficult and 
intricate points of law, but Judge 
Priest was not to be outdone and he 
"won out," to use a slang expression. 
His ability as an orator, his keen con- 
ception of the law, as well as the mag- 
nificent manner in which the interests 
of his clients were protected, soon 
gained for the young attorney a repu- 
tation that many men far more expe- 
rienced in court practice did not pos- 
sess, and from then on may be dated 
his success. 

In a short while he was selected by 
election for the City Attorneyship, and 



for about two years served in that 
capacity. When Judge Priest assumed 
charge of that public position many 
things were to be looked after, and al- 
though the duties were such as to tax 
the strength of the strongest the in- 
cumbent succeeded in discharging its 
functions and made hundreds of 
friends as a result of his efforts. 

After leaving that position and while 
serving the Missouri Pacific Railway 
as assistant atorney, he represented the 
company in certain litigation in which 
were involved many thousands of dol- 
lars, invariably meeting with marked 
success. It was during the year of 
1883 that the Wabash Railroad secured 
his services as its general attorney, 
which office he held for several years, 
appearing in most of the important 
cases in which the corporation was 
interested. Seven years following his 
appointment by the Wabash Judge 
Priest, whose success as a lawyer had 
preceded him and whose reputation 
was attracting the attention of the 
heads of many of the largest railway 
systems of the country, was selected as 
general attorney for the Missouri Pa- 
cifis road, which he held until his 
appointment by President Grover Cleve- 
land in 1894 to the judgeship of the 
United States District Court. Judge 
Priest only remained on the bench, 
however, a short time, when he again 
decided to return to the private prac- 
tice of his chosen profession, forming 
the firm of Boyle, Priest and Lehmann, 
which arrangement continued until the 
present legal partnership of Boyle ana 
Priest was formed, one or tne most 
noted law firms in the United States 
today, with a clientele that is tremen- 
dous, representing many of the largest 
institutions in the country. In all cases 
in which the subject of the author's 



review has appeared, whether as coun- 
sel for plaintiff or defendant, in all the 
many victories he has won, and in 
every act of his in all courtrooms in 
which he has argued with juries, he 
has never, one time, endeavored to 
take advantage over his opponent. This 
in itself has won for him the highest 
respect the har could bestow upon one 
of its members and has proven the 
foundation of his remarkable success. 

Judge Priest in 1876 was wedded to 



Miss Henrietta K. Parsell, a most 
charming woman of Webster Groves, 
Mo., a social favorite at the time of 
her marriage. The couple have four 
children, two sons and two daughters. 
Judge Priest holds membership in 
many of the leading social and busi- 
ness organizations of the city, among 
which are the Mercantile, St. Louis, 
Noonday, Country, Log Cabin, Racquet 
and others. Several times he has been 
elected to the presidency of the Mis- 
souri State Bar Association. 



JAMES PARRISH DA¥/SON. 



I am satisfied from my own investi- 
gations that there is no member of the 
Missouri Bar who stands higher in the 
profession than the subject of my re- 
view — James Parrish Dawson, of the 
firm of Dawson and Garvin, with of- 
fices situated in the Wainwright build- 
in, and recognized as one of the strong- 
est legal combinations in the south- 
west, with a large and.- steady practice, 
many of their clients being among the 
largest concerns in the state. 

James Parrish Dawson is a Kentuck- 
ian by birth, his natal day being July 
17, 1851, he being the youngest of a 
family of five, of whom but two are 
living today. His early youth was 
spent in his native state, after which 
with his parents he moved to Missouri. 
That was in 1858. John D. Dawson, 
father of my subject, was associated 
with a well known college at Columbia 
for young men. 

About 1862 young Dawson moved to 
Louisiana, Mo. It was in that city 
that the elder Dawson passed away. 
It was also in this locality that the 
son attended school and secured his 
earlier education. Not only did he 
pursue his studies in the public insti- 
tutions, but under private tutors as 
v/ell. This he continued until about 
1874, when he decided to come to St. 
Louis. Mr. Dawson at that time was 
about 23 years of age. He had taught 
school prior to locating in the "fourth 
city," and on his arrival here entered 
the law department of Washington 
University, an institution that has 
turned out manw of the most brilliant 
lawyers of the country. 

Two years later the young man ob- 
tained his diploma and had conferred 
upon him the degree of Bachelor of 
Law. In 1876 he was admitted to the 



bar as a regular practicing attorney. 
Mr. Dawson was posessed of the same 
stamina exhibited by so many young 
men of that generation, and during the 
time he attended law school carried a 
large route on one of the newspapers 
of St. Louis. 

I believe is was back in 1892 that 
Mr. Dawson formed partnership ar- 
rangements with W. E. Garvin, one 
of the best known lawyers of the local 
bar, and that combination is still in 
existence, the firm today being one of 
the best known in St. Louis and enjoys 
an immense practice. No lawyer in 
the state has met with a greater degree 
of success than the subject of my re- 
view. He is regarded as one of the 
best read men in the city and has an 
extensive library. In addition to his 
splendid practice Mr. Dawson is finan- 
cially interested in a number of profit- 
able enterprises and owns considerable 
realty in the city as well as in the 
county. 

He is one of the original organizers 
of the Algonquin Club and holds mem- 
bership in the Mercantile and other 
well known organizations. His country 
home at Webster Groves is one of the 
most beautiful in St. Louis County. 
Nothing pleases its owner better than 
to wander about and under the mag- 
nificent and stately trees thatl sur- 
round it and cultivate the fiowers. 

It was in 1881 that Mr. Dawson was 
married to Miss Dell Mead, a native 
of St. Louis, whose father prior to his 
death was a naval officer. The couple 
have had two children a son and 
daughter. The son, James C. Dawson, 
is now engaged in the manufacturing 
business in St. Louis, one of the most 
enterprising and progressive young 
business men of the city. 



DOCTOR WASHINGTON E. FISCHEL. 



The subject of my review is a native 
Missourian. He was born in this city 
in 1S50, and during his early days 
attended the public schools of the city, 
graduating from the high school in 
1S68. Following this he went abroad 
and took up the study of natural 
sciences. Having decided upon the 
practice of medicine as his life work 
Dr. Fischel returned to St. Louis and 
attended the St. Louis Medical College, 
now a department of Washington Uni- 
versity. In this magnificent institution 
he won his M. D. degree in 1871. After 
this he again pursued medical courses 
in the great universities of Vienna, 
Sprague, Berlin and other foreign cap- 
itals, attending and receiving benefit 
of lectures by the the most eminent 
medical educators in the world, de- 
voting about thre years to study 
abroad. In 1874. returning to St. 
Louis, Dr. Fischel immediately took 
up the practice of his chosen profes- 
sion. 

Not only has Dr. Fischel distin- 
guished himself as a practicing physi- 
cian, but as a medical educator. To- 
day he is chief of staff of the Barnard 
Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, the 
best equipped institution of its kind 
in the United States, and presided over 
by some of the most distinguished 
men. 

Dr. Fischel has served as an edu- 
cator in the medical department in 
Washington L'niversity and is still 
Professor of Clinical Medicine in that 
institution. In 1909 Dr. Fischel was 
elected to the International Congress 
as a delegate from the American Medi- 
cal Association. . The meetings were 



held in Budapest. He is a member of 
the Advisory Committee of the Na- 
tional Association for the Relief and 
Controj of Tuberculosis and a member 
of the council of the American School 
of Hygiene Association. 

Dr. Fischel, in addition to his large 
private practice, hospital and sani- 
tarium work and duties as an edu- 
cator, has found time to write many 
important articles for the medical 
press. Several of his papers read be- 
fore medical conventions have attracted 
great attention. 

In 1876 Dr. Fischel was united in 
marriage with Miss Martha Ellis, and 
the couple have four children. Two of 
the sons are rapidly following in the 
father's .footsteps and are graduates of 
Washington University in the medical 
department. Dr. Walter Fischel prac- 
tices in conjunction with his distin- 
guished father, and is an instructor in 
the medical department of his alma 
mater. 

Politically Dr. Fischel is a Republi- 
can. His research work has extended 
over many years, and whilst like any 
other man he enjoys recreation at 
times his profession is invariably first 
in his mind. He likes scientific re- 
search and has engaged in much of it 
with great success. No man in all Mis- 
souri stands higher in the medical 
profession than Dr. Fischel. Many 
years ago he attained that high posi- 
tion of success and prominence for 
which all strive and controls a practice 
that is said to be one of the largest 
and most highly representative in St. 
Louis. 



JOEN HOGAN BOOGHER. 



The subject of this sketch, John 
Hogan Boogher, is descended from one 
of the oldest families in America on 
the paternal side, of Holland ancestry 
on the maternal side from the dis- 
tinguished settlers in Maryland and 
Virginia. The full history of the 
family is contained in the records of 
the Society of Colonial Wars and Sons 
of the Revolution, of which societies 
Mr. Boogher is an active member. 

Mr. Boogher is a native Missourian. 
He was born in St. Louis in 1867, 
soH of S. L. Boogher, a prominent 
merchant of St. Louis, and grandson 
of Hon. .John Hogan. who at the close 
of the Civil War, for many years rep- 
resented St. Louis in congress. His 



early education was obtained in the 
public schools of St. Louis, graduating 
from the high school at the age of 
seventeen. He then attended the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, returning after 
three years with the bachelors degree. 
He then entered the law department of 
Washington University, which perhaps 
has turned out more able lawyers than 
any similar college in the country. 
Some of the greatest legal lights of the 
United States studied law in St. Louis, 
and they are proud they can point to 
Washington University as their alma 
mater. 

After the usual course there the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws was con- 
ferred upon him and he immediately 



began the practice of law in his native 
city. Ever since that time Mr. Boogher 
has been devoted to the practice of 
law. 

I do not believe there is a better 
posted or more widely read lawyer in 
the state of Missouri. Even in his 
youth, ilr. Boogher was of a great 
literary mind, and was referred to by 
acquaintances and members of his 
family as a '"book worm," so consantly 
did he pore over volumes, one after 
another. Today his library is re- 
puted to be one of the best in the 
country, comprising an unusually 
large collection of works by the most 
eminent authors. 

He has appeared as counsel in many 
of the most important cases brought 
before the courts of the city, county 
and state, and not only has he prac- 
tised in the courts of Missouri, but has 
been sent by his clients into most of 
the states of the Union on important 
matters which he has handled with 
uniform success. Some of the litiga- 
tion in which he has appeared has 
involved many of the intricacies and 



difiBcult problems of law, but so well 
equipped was he for handling them 
he preserved the interests of his 
clients throughout. 

In 1907 Mr. Boogher married Mrs. 
Elizabeth S. White, the daughter of 
a distinguished captain in the cause of 
the Confederacy, and the mother of 
two sons, one of whom. Franklin Mad- 
ison White, is associated with Mr. 
Boogher in. the practice of law, the 
orher is Commander William Russell 
White of the United States navy. Mr. 
Bocgher is one of the staunchest advo- 
cates of Democracy in the southwest. 
Since early youth he has been an active 
worker in the interests of his party, 
and his services are known to be at 
the disposition of party leaders in any 
campaign. Several campaigns were 
suecessfTilIy managed by him. Mr. 
Boogher is a member of the St. Louis 
club, the Bar Association, the Civic_ 
League, and many other organizations 
of St. Louis. 

In legal and social circles no man 
stands higher than doe? '■'n- -nbject 
of my review. 



ANNA SNEED CAIENS. 



Of the real educators of Missouri 
f can call to mind none whom I take 
more pleasure in speaking of than 
Anna Sneed Cairns, president of For- 
est Park University, an institution. 
which for thoroughness has never been 
excelled, and equalled by only a few. 
President Cairns was bom in 1S41. 
and her whole life has been devoted 
to the uplift and education of young 
women. 

When less than twenty years of age 
Mrs. Cairns graduated from Monti- 
cello Seminary, and entered the class- 
room as a teacher in 1S5S. Notwith- 
standing there were no institutions of 
learning of her school-girl days as is 
now the case. Mrs. Cairns mastered 
many languages, such as German, 
Latin. Greek and French, as well as 
of history, literature, geology and psy- 
chology. 

The opportunity to teach in the 
public schools when she graduated 
was open to Mrs. Cairns, but when 
she learned that the Holy Bible was 
practically barred in those institu- 
tion she declined to teach in them. 
During the early part of the civil war 
(1S61). without a dollar capital, she 
established the Kirkwood Seminary. 
At that time schools all over the state 
were closed. She began with seven 
students, notwithstanding she had no 



school fumirure or any sort of equip- 
ment. It was finally, in 1S63, that she 
erected in the woods a small frame 
building of one room. In IS 64 this 
was enlarged, whereupon her oldest 
sister, Mary, joined her, the lauer 
teaching on the piano and having 
charge of the primary deparcm.ent. In 
1S65. at the close of the war. another 
sister. Harriet, joined her. In 1S66. a 
structure large enough te accommo- 
date about 100 pupils was put up, the 
money being borrowed for the pur- 
pose. 

Kirkwood Seminary was chartered 
in lST-3. whilst in 1SS3 a neat three- 
story building was erected. Three 
years later the young woman who had 
striven with might and main to give 
education to girls, was wedded to 
John G. Cairns, at that time one of 
the foremost architects of St. Louis. 
In 1SS7 a large addition was made to 
the institution, which Mrs. Cairns 
continued even after marrying, and 
shortly afterwards such a fight was 
made on the noble institution by the 
Kirkwood town board that Mrs. Cairns 
moved her school to St. Louis, since 
which time it has been in this city. 

Forest Park University, which with 
its spacious grounds, occupies twelve 
or fifteen acres on the south side of 
Forest Park, presents one of the most 



imposing educational institutions any- 
where, the main building, erected in 
1890, from designs prepared by Mr. 
Cairns' distinguished husband-archi- 
tect, being considered the most com- 
plete school structure in the south- 
west today. The school exercises, 
commencement day, were conducted 
in the new buildings in 1891, Mrs. 
Cairns having disposed of her Kirk- 
wood holdings for more than thirty- 
five thousand dollars. 

It was about this time that the 
financial troubles of Mrs. Cairns be- 
gun. The first was when default was 
made in payment on notes given by 
the corporation, secured by liens on 
the Kirkwood property, approximating 
fifty thousand dollars. In order to ar- 
range matters so she could pay out, 
so to speak, she was forced to pay 
eight per cent interest on deferred 
payments. During that time this good 
•woman declined to accept salary for 
her work, refused to even so much as 
spend a few cents for a light lunch 
when down town, but kept every 
penny for her school, even wearing 
her garments much longer than she 
would have otherwise done, even the 
cook drawing more cash for her serv- 
ices than the head of the university. 
At ■ one time several creditors took 
offense at something and united to 
throw her into bankruptcy. Just at 
that crisis two friends came to her 
rescue, and with a loan of five thous- 
and dollars, she paid the claims. She 
was so overjoyed and felt so relieved 
from the burden that she sang the 
one hundred and twenty-fourth psalm. 
Since the construction of the main 
building, the I\IcKee Gymnasium has 
been added, Miss Ellen J. McKee con- 
tributing liberally to the expense of 
erection. Then she built Cairn's Hall, 
another imposing structure, each 
building being paid for, and in full, 
as put up. When the winter of 1904 
rolled around, the last vestige of in- 
debtedness was cleared away, and to- 
day the institution is free from debt. 

I do not believe there is a better 
known woman in the country today 
than Mrs. Cairns. To Mrs. Cairns is 
due much credit for reviving prohibi- 
tion agitation in Missouri. No woman 
worked harder to have submitted to 
public vote the adoption of the con- 
stitutional amendment voted down in 
1910, and which thousands claim was 
the result of the grossest character of 
fraud. In their endeavors to get the 
matter properly before the people of 
the state, it necessarily had to come 
through the state legislature. Mrs. 



Cairns, in company with a large body 
of ladies, the most prominent in the 
city, journeyed to Jefferson City, and 
before the legislative solons in a hall 
crowded to almost suffiocating capa- 
city, Mrs. Cairns pleaded for recog- 
nition of the cause she espoused. 
For several years she held the legis- 
lative superintendency of the Mis- 
souri State Woman's Christian Tem- 
perance Union. To get through the 
project of having the amendment sub- 
mitted to the general public, she 
gathered petition after petition, and 
in every instance her purposes were 
defeated. She was untiring, however, 
and would not give up. 

Not content with securing signa- 
tures to petitions, Mrs. Cairns realiz- 
ing that something more forceful 
would have to be undertaken, stumped 
Missouri, speaking in many different 
localities. As soon as her school 
closed each week she would take the 
train Friday nights and between then 
and the opening of school the follow- 
ing Monday morning, she would ad- 
dress audience after audience. 

Mrs. Cairns was an organizer of 
the National Woman's Temperance 
Union for a number of years, and 
for two or three years National Su- 
perintendent of the Department of 
Capital and Labor. IMrs. Cairns did 
more than any other woman in St. 
Louis to induce the placing of a ma- 
tron at the four courts. She even 
spent a night in a calaboose to be 
in position to clearly outline the need 
for improvement. 

As a public orator Mrs. Cairns in- 
deed has few equals. As a member 
of the Prohibition Club of St. Louis, 
Mrs. Cairns was dispatched to the 
State of Texas. For one solid month 
she spoke. At several places when 
being introduced she was hooted and 
jeered. 

But again returning to Forest Park 
University. The College of Music of 
the famed institution, under the lead- 
ership of Ernest R. Kroeger, an edu- 
cator whose reputation extends to 
all parts of the country. Then the 
College of Liberal Arts was chartered 
by the institution. 

Before bringing to a conclusion my 
review of this interesting and remark- 
able woman. I must not overlook 
reference to the daily study of the 
Holy Bible in Forest Park Univer- 
sity. It was a long time after the 
establishing of Forest Park Univer- 
sity that the pupils had to be carried 
in wagonettes to the institutions, the 
cars not reaching out that far. Finally 



Mrs. Cairns got down to real active 
work on that proposition, with the re- 
sult that today a person may take a 



Market street car and alight at the 
main gate of the now country-famed 
institution of educational learning. 



JOSEPH P. GRAHAM. 



Beginning in the retail lumber busi- 
ness about twenty-five years ago, on a 
capital of about $125, at Doe Run, Ale, 
.Joseph P. Graham bas risen rapidly 
to prominence, until today he stands 
at the head of the Graham Lumber 
Company, one of the best known firms 
engaged in this line of trade, with an 
annual volume of business that means 
many thousands of dollars. 

The suUject of the author's review 
was born March 24, 1863. He had a 
common school education, supplement- 
ed witb a business- course at Quincj% 
111. In his youthful days young Gra- 
ham remained more or less closely to 
the farm. In the fields he ploughed, 
furrowed and planted, and made him- 
self generally useful. At night he ap- 
plied himself to study and thought, 
and considered a more rapid advance 
to fame and fortune. It was about 
that time that the young man put 
aside farm labors and entered the 
business world, having as his sole cap- 
ital the small amount mentioned in 
the foregoing paragraph. 

Mr. Graham's early life was not 
strewn with rosy pathways. His whole 
record is one of self-reliance. He is 
a thorough self-made man. The first 
few months he was in business he felt 
that every dollar earned should be 
immediately put back into his retail 
lumber business, and to save room 
rent, he actually slept in his lumber 
shed, his only mattress being a sewed 
up sheet, filled with wheat straw. His 
business grew, and finally in 1895, he 
accepted a position as road salesman 
for the Huttig Sash and Door Com- 
pany, one of the largest establishments 
of its kind in the world. For ten 
years Mr. Graham traveled for the 
company, establishing a magnificent 
record. In 1904 he severed his con- 
nection with his employers and organ- 
ized the Graham Lumber Company, 
capitalized at $100,000, but which after 
about twelve' months' operation, so 
great had been the increasing volume 
of business, had to be increased by 
an additional $50,000, making a total 
capitalization of $150,000. The busi- 
ness continued to grow, not in leaps 
and bounds, but a steady, safe growth, 
that was secure and permanent, and 
finally a little more than three years 



ago the capital stock was again in- 
creased, this time to $300,000. 

The company is regarded in local 
financial circles as one of the strong- 
est and most conservative in the 
Southwest, its returns annually being 
all- that any man could possibly de- 
sire. During all this time the active, 
actual operation of the business has 
been under the. personal supervision 
of Mr. Graham," as president of the 
company, and according to information 
at hand, so rapidly is its volume of 
trade increasing, month after month, 
that it cannot be very much longer be- 
fore the capital may have to be again 
increased, probably to half a million 
of dollars, a wholesale business being 
done exclusively in yellow pine lum- 
ber, doors, sash, cypress and red cedar 
shingles. 

Mr. Graham and Miss Cora Tidwell 
in 1888, were joined in wedlock in the 
Lone Star State (Texas). Their palat- 
ial home at 4019 Washington boule- 
vard, in one of the exclusive residence 
sections of St. Louis, is one of the 
neatest and most attractive in the 
city, and here at the close of each 
day's many business cares, the sub- 
ject of my review may be found, sur- 
rounded by his family. Mr. Graham 
has three children: Miss Ethel Gra- 
ham, in her twenty-second year; Ed- 
gar Graham, aged twenty, and Miss 
Edna Graham, eighteen years of age, 
each of whom is enjoying the advant- 
ages of a collegiate education, hav- 
ing attended the best known institu- 
tions in the country. 

Notwithstanding his business occu- 
pies the greater part of his attention 
with various matters of importance to 
be looked after daily, Mr. Graham 
finds time frequently for a little di- 
version, and is a member of several 
of the leading organizations of St. 
Louis. 

In addition to this he is a great 
advocate of fraternal associations of 
the standard character, and enjoys the 
distinction of holding the thirty-second 
degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, as 
well as membershp in th^e Mystic 
Shrine. His religious affiliations are 
with the Baptist Church, for which he 
has done a great deal, always con- 
tributing with much liberality. Mr. 



Graham is a great believer in civic 
development. He has never delved 
into matters of a political character, 
beyond exercising his right as an 
American citizen at the polls on dates 
of election. But he believes in ad- 
vancing the interests of the city. He 
is a strong advocate of anything that 
will bring this about, and in any ana 
all things, with that object in vlevv, 
his name is among those at the head 
of the list. He is one of the sterling 
business men of the Southwest, and 



stands high in the coTnmercial, social 
and financial circles of the country. 

Mr. Graham was one of the original 
organizers of the Fredericktown Trust 
Company, of Fredericktown, Mo., now 
known as Bankers' Trust Company, of 
St. Louis, an institution that has a 
fully paid in capital and surplus of 
$2,000,000, and generally regarded as 
one of the strongest financial establish- 
ments in Missouri, and ]\Ir. Graham is 
one of its directors at the present time. 
The president of the company is J. E. 
Franklin. 



JUDGE CHESTER H. KRUM. 



An Illinoisan by birth, Missourian 
by adoption. Judge Chester H, Krum 
stands today as one of the leading 
members of the legal profession and is 
regarded as one of the ablest practi- 
tioners in the state. 

Judge Krum was born in Alton, 111., 
September 13, 1840, the son of one of 
the best known lawyers in his time 
and a man who won distinction as a 
jurist. In his early life young Krum 
attended Washington University, where 
he took classical courses, and from 
which institution he was graduated. 
He was awarded his diploma in 1863, 
gaining the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
In his school work Judge Krum stood 
invariably at the head of his classes 
and won the strong commendation of 
his instructors. 

After leaving school young Krum 
began to think of what his avocation 
in life should be. His father before 
him being a learned follower of Black- 
stone no doubt had much to do with 
deciding the son, and so it was that he 
made up his mind to take up the pro- 
fession. In Harvard University (law 
department) the young man entered. 

In 1864 Judge Krum was admitted 
to the bar. He shortly after entered 
upon the practice of his profession in 
St. Louis. Being a young man just 
out of college and minus the expe- 
rience which came to him in after 
years business was rather slow for 
a while. Finally the legal firm of 
Krum, Decker and Krum was organ- 
ized. This arrangement proved highly 
satisfactory and the manner in which 
young Krum handled his cases before 
courts and juries soon won attention 
from other sources. 

In 1869 Judge Krum was appointed 
United States District- Attorney. This 
he continued until 1872. During his 
tenure of office some of the most diffi- 
cult litigation with which the govern- 



ment has had to contend came up. 
Judge Krum in each instance then, as 
now, had in advance of going to trial 
well prepared and fortified himself 
with the result that his success was 
of such moment as to warrant especial 
commendation from his superior offi- 
cers. 

After tendering his resignation as 
United States legal representative, he 
was elected to the St. Louis Circuit 
Court bench. For three or four years 
he continued in that position. While 
serving in that capacity Judge Krum'i 
decisions were fair and all times in 
harmony with the law, and on not a 
few occasions lawyers have been heard 
to express preference for trying their 
cases before him. 

It was while on the Circuit Court 
bench that the magnificent legal learn- 
ing of the distinguished jurist was re- 
vealed. It has been said, and I believe 
it is literally true, that no lawyer in 
the city has a more keen conception of 
the laws of the country than Judge 
Krum. 

When he retired from the bench he 
immediately resumed his private prac- 
tice, which has steadily grown in vol- 
ume. Judge Krum has at all times re- 
frained from specializing. His view is 
that a man to become a lawyer must 
be a specialist in all departments of 
the law, and has therefore applied his 
knowledge in accordance with his 
views. 

Not only has he met with unvarying 
success in practice, but as an educator 
as well. For nearly ten years he was 
affiliated with the faculty of the St. 
Louis Law School. 

Judge Krum, in 1866, was wedded 
to Miss Elizabeth Cutter. The couple 
have six children, four daughters and 
two sons. The family attends the 
Unitarian Church. Judge Krum, from 



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1864 to 1887, was a strong advocate of 
the Republican party. He is a man 
of broad giiaged views, and came to a 
realization that it was best for the in- 
terests of the people to join the ranks 
of Democracy, hence he did so. He 
has never believed in the free coinage 
of silver, and when William Jennings 
Bryan attempted to foster it on the 
people he joined the "gold money 



wing" of the party and fought the 
campaign through. 

As an orator Judge Krum has few 
equals. As a debater he has set the 
best of them down. Everywhere he 
has appeared in litigation, whether as 
counsel for defense or plaintiff, he has 
been regarded as a man of unusual 
learning and a man of great brilliance 
in expounding the doctrine of Black- 
sone. 



MILLARD F. WATTS. 



If there is a better or more favorably 
known lawyer in Missouri than Millard 
F. Watts, the subject of my review, I 
am at a loss to whom to turn. His 
record, clean throughout, makes one 
of the most interesting in my volume, 
and I know there is not a more able 
lawyer practicing in St. Louis today. 
Mr. Watts was admitted to the bar 
in 1879, since which time he has stead- 
ily practiced his chosen profession, his 
method of handling and preparing 
cases having won well merited atten- 
tion from many sources. 

Confining his attention primarily to 
corporation law, Mr. Watts has natu- 
rally been associated closely with much 
of the most difficult litigation before 
the courts. Litigation in which the 
most intricate technicalities and prob- 
lems of law were involved have been 
presented, with Mr. Watts acting either 
as counsel for plaintiff or defendant, 
and the success with which he has 
almost universally met is marked in- 
deed. 

In Central College at Payette, Mo., 
Mr. Watts as a youth pursued his 
studies. Completing his studies there 
he next attended Cornell as well as 
Washington Universities. Until the 
demise of the lamented Judge S. M. 
Breckinridge in 1892 Mr. Watts was 



associated with him in practice. Sev- 
eral years following he formed a part- 
nership with^ Judges Barclay and Mc- 
Keighan, which continued until 1901, 
and during the following two years 
Mr. Watts and Judge McKeighan re- 
mained as partners. 

In 1903 Judge Horatio D. Wood was 
admitted to the firm, and this com- 
bination continued for the next two 
years, being considered one of the 
strongest law firms in the entire south- 
west. Judge Woods died in 1905, fol- 
lowing which the two former partners, 
Mr. Watts and Judge McKeighan, re- 
mained together. This partenrship re- 
mained intact until the death of Judge 
McKeighan about three years ago, after 
which the firm of Watts, Williams and 
Dinesi was formed. 

As in the beginning, this firm made 
a special feature of corporation law, 
in which Mr. Watts' is said to be one 
of the most skilled atorneys in the 
United States, possessing an unusually 
keen conception of the law and carry- 
ing conviction with his able arguments 
before courts and juries. The firm 
today is Watts, Gentry and Lee. 

In political views Mr. Watts is a 
Republican, and whilst he has never 
sought public office he' has always 
worked constantly for the advancement 
of party interests. 



HENRY W. PETERS. 



Shipping clerk at the age of sixteen; 
traveling salesman at eighteen; led 
sales force at twenty-one; vice-presi- 
dent at twenty-nine, and president at 
thirty-five — this, in a few words, is the 
business history of Henry W. Peters, 
president of the Peters Shoe Company, 
St. Louis. 

Mr. Peters was born in St. Louis 
February 14th, 1856, and while still 
an infant his parents removed to the 
Gasconade hills of Missouri, where 



educational facilities were few, and for 
this reason his early training was en- 
trusted for five years to the tutelage of 
Miss Carroll, a cultured southern wo- 
man. Later he attended the public 
schools of St. Louis, working during 
vacations in his father's country store 
at Bay. At sixteen he secured a po- 
sition as shipping clerk with Claflin, 
Allen & Company, shoe jobbers of this 
city. Two years later he was sent out 
on the road as salesman, where, in 



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spite of his youth he made a remark- 
able success, for before he attained 
the age of twenty-one his sales increas- 
ed to over $100,000 per year, and before 
he reached his twenty-second year he 
headed the list of salesmen for the 
house, which at that time was one of 
the foremost shoe houses in the west. 
When the house was reorganized as the 
Claflin- Allen Shoe Company Mr. Peters 
was elected vice-president, he being 
twenty-nine years of age at that time. 
At the age of thirty-five Mr. Peters 
organized the Peters Shoe Company, of 
which he has been president from its 
beginning. The company was organ- 
ized with a capital stock of two hun- 
dred thousand ($200,000) dollars, 
which has since then (in 1909) been 
increased to two million ($2,000,0000) 
dollars, all paid up from the' earnings 
of the company. At the time the com- 
pany was organized it sent only eight 
salesmen out, but is now represented 
by 120 and employs in the neighbor- 
hood of 4,000 in its eight factories, the 
output of which is shipped to almost 
every state in the Union, Mexico and 
Europe. The company enjoys the dis- 
tinction of manufacturing more fine 
shoes than any other house in the 
west. 

The phenomenal growth of the busi- 
ness of the Peters Shoe Company is 
due to the fact that Mr. Peters has 
always been an indefatigable worker 
and regards no detail too unimportant 
to receive his personal attention. He 
is always at his desk before 7:30 
in the morning and seldom leaves his 
place of business before 6 o'clock in 
the evening. He is an ardent advocate 
of the principle that whatever is worth 
doing at all is worth doing well, and 
his example of energy and industry is 
one which may well be followed by his 
employes and others who desire to 
work their way upward. He believes 
that advice not fortified by example 
is of little weight, and therefore fol- 
lowed a course which he desires shall 
serve as a course of inspiration to 
those in his service. 

He is not an active club man, yet 
he is a member of several clubs, is 
also interested in the banking institu- 
tions, organizations and associations 
enumerated below: 

Ex-president Missouri Manufactur- 
ers' Association; e^x-president St. Louis 
Manufacturers' and Jobbers' Associa- 
tion; ex-member Republican State 
Committee; director Mississippi Valley 
Trust Company; director Boatmen's 



Bank; director St. Louis Coliseum 
Company; member Executive Commit- 
tee Business Men's League, Executive 
Committee Million Population Club, 
Board of Governors Amphion Club, 
Commercial Club, St. Louis Club, Mer- 
cantile Club, Symphony Society, Aero 
Club, Kennel Club, Automobile Club, 
Civic League, City Plan Association, 
National Boot and Shoe Manufactur- 
ers' Association, National Association 
of Manufacturers, Western Association 
of Shoe Wholesalers, Interstate Mer- 
chants' Association, Foreign Trades As- 
sociation, Citizens' Industrial Associa- 
tion, Northwestern Business Men's As- 
sociation, XIN League, Parkview Trus- 
tees, Mississippi Valley Trust Estates 
Committee, Washington University As- 
sociation, American National Red 
Cross Association. 

In politics Mr. Peters is a staunch 
Republican. The following comment 
from a St. Louis newspaper is a fair 
specimen of the sentiment of his busi- 
ness colleagues. -The article read: 
"This paper suggested the name of Mr. 
Peters even before his name was dis- 
cussed in the Republican City Com- 
mittee, and it also pointed out his fit- 
ness for the mayorality of St. Louis. 
Mr. Peters is an ideal man, the spirit 
of intensified honesty, with a large fol- 
lowing among business men and labor- 
ing people." 

In St. Louis, September 25, 1879, 
]\Ir. Peters was married to Miss Anna 
E. Stoenner, of Gasconade County, Mo. 
They have three children: Ella C, at 
home; Edwin H., who is with the 
Peters Shoe Company, and who mar- 
ried Stella Maud Porter, of Plattsburg, 
Ohio; and Oliver P., a graduate of the 
Washington University Law Depart- 
ment. He resides at No. 6245 West- 
minster Place, in one of the handsom- 
est houses in the west end. The home 
atmosphere is a most attractive one 
and the hospitality of the Peters house- 
hold is greatly enjoyed by their many 
friends. While a man of wealth there 
is nothing of hautier in Mr. Peters; he 
does not stand aloof from his fellow 
men with any feeling of superiority, 
but meets all on the common plane of 
universal brotherhood and finds his 
friends among the young and old, rich 
and poor. His employes entertain for 
him the warmest regard and recognize 
the fact that he is not only just, but 
that he regards them as individuals 
and not as parts of a complex business 
machine. 



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JUDGE ALBERT DEXTER NORTONI. 



Various vocations respectively re- 
quire men of different dispositions 
and talents. To find that for which 
one's natural faculties best fit him is 
an essential point in life. The study 
of the lives of men who have ren- 
dered admirable service in the pro- 
fessional or commercial fields goes a 
long way in enabling one to arrive at 
a successful conclusion. As associate 
justice of the St. Louis Court of Ap- 
peals, Judge Albert D. Norton! has 
demonstrated in such manner as to 
convince one of the truth that he is 
serving in a capacity for which he is 
naturally, in disposition and ability, 
well fitted. 

Judge Nortoni is a native of Mis- 
souri and was born in 1867, at New 
Cambria. His early educational train- 
ing was had in public and private 
schools. After completing his studies, 
the young man decided to enter upon 
a professional career and immediately 
begun his legal training, and in 1888 
was admitted to the bar, being at the 
time about 21 years of age, with a 
promising future before him. In Char- 
iton, Macon and Linn Counties he 
practiced, and established a splendid 
clientage. He sought broader fields of 
activity, however, and realized that 
opportunity for greater achievement 
was offered in the larger cities, hence 
he came to St. Louis and located, hav- 
ing been appointed Assistant United 
States Attorney January 1, 1903. 

Here he practiced until called to the 
judiciary. No man, in my opinion, 
has ever served the city of St. Louis 
with greater dignity, with more 
marked success, nor with more force 
of character than the subject of my 
review. For two full terms he served 
New Cambria as city attorney. It was 
while thus engaged that he begun to 
build, step by step, the magnificent 
reputation which he today enjoys. In 
1903 and 1904, when the naturalization 
cases came up, he took an active part, 
and working unceasingly and burning 
much "midnight oil" preparing cases 
for presentation to court, his efforts 
were crowned with the success of con- 
viction of several prominent poli- 
ticians. 



During the initial trial of United 
States Senator Burton, of Kansas, it 
was Judge Nortoni and Judge Dyer 
who prosecuted him, and I am told by 
lawyers who heard his address in that 
case that a more masterly effort was 
never made in a courtroom. He is a 
forceful speaker, an orator with but 
few equals, and handled his cases with 
that keen conception of the law that 
has brought him the great distinction 
that is now his. 

The Republicans nominated him for 
Probate Judge of Macon County in 
1894, but he refused to make the cam- 
paign. After coming to St. Louis he 
was named First Assistant United 
States District Attorney, under Federal. 
Judge D. P. Dyer, at that time Dis- 
trict Attorney. His conduct of this 
important federal position was such 
as to attract the attention of the bar 
of the southwest more than ever be- 
fore and he was the unanimous choice 
for the judgeship of the St. Louis 
Court of Appeals, and in January, 
1905, he ascended the bench of that 
high tribunal for a twelve years' term 
of office. 

His decisions are noted among the 
profession for fairness and clearness. 
There is nothing blurred in his con- 
clusions, but distinctly outlined in 
every particular, the details of many 
cases brought before the court, in- 
volving some of the most intricate 
problems, which only a man possessed 
of high knowledge of law could un- 
ravel. 

His reported opinions have been re- 
ferred to in many states of the Union, 
many important cases having been de- 
cided, based upon the conclusions ar- 
rived at by Judge Nortoni. 

It was in 1892 that Judge Nortoni 
was united in marriage with Miss 
Maggie L. Francis, a native of Macon 
County, this state, a highly accom- 
plished and talented woman. She 
passed away in 1894. Judge Nortoni 
in 190G, again was wedded, this time 
to Miss Emma J. Belcher, of Columbia 
(Mo.), a woman known for her charm- 
ing qualities and force of character. 



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FRANK LAYNG TALBOT. 



Since the advent of the moving pic- 
ture industry great achievements have 
been accomplished, not in any one 
part of the country, but almost every- 
where, until today many of the actors 
and actresses who in years gone by 
have appeared before audiences in 
America and foreign climes at fabu- 
lous salaries, have deserted what is 
termed the "legitimate" for the cam- 
era. And so it goes. The views pre- 
sented by all moving picture houses 
cannot be classed as ideal, for there 
are not a few blurred or otherwise 
marred in some unaccountable man- 
ner, but when the film is clear and 
perfectly distinct it entertains even 
more so than the living performers. 
The silent players, as depicted on 
canvas, have made marked headway. 
One of the great pioneers in this line 
of amusement is none other than the 
subject of my review- — Frank Layng 
Talbot, the most prominent theatrical 
man in St. Louis connected in this 
manner, and one who has achieved 
fame and distinction throughout the 
country. Mr. Talbot was born in Salt 
Lake City in 1S71, and comes from 
one of the first families of gentiles 
settling in Utah, his brother being the 
first white child born in Denver, Colo- 
rado. 

He was a,t one time with "Paine's 
Last Days of Pompeii" as manager. 
That was, I think, in 1892, at Denver, 
and continued with the company for 
more than five years. In the latter 
part of 189-7, Mr. Talbot spent that 
winter with a road company. Whilst 
connected with the Paine Fireworks 
Display Company, however, he had 
charge of pyrotechnical displays at the 
World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, after 
which he was with Fanny Davenport a 
while. After the World's Fair he built 
the summer resort just below Toledo, 
Ohio, on the Maumee River, known as 
"Presque Isle," and in 1892 was one 
of the owners of the "Peoples Thea- 
tre" in Denver. 

In 1897 Mr. Talbot was with the 
"Carnival of Madrid," and appeared 
at Salt Air Beach at Salt Lake City 
and again at Portland, Oregon, after 
which he went to Vancouver. Leaving 
the last place he went to Seattle. The 
great pyrotechnical display of the 
"Battle of Manila" was given at vari- 
ous places under the direction of Mr. 
Talbot, with marked success. 

It was, I believe, about 1900, that 
Mr. Talbot launched out into the gen- 



eral advertising business, with offices 
in Omaha and Minneapolis. He made 
considerable headway in those years 
and built up a business .that proved 
most remunerative. Finally, in 1902, 
he decided to come to St. Louis. Here 
he supervised and published what was 
known as the "St. Louis Police Book," 
a work, the character of which has 
never been attempted or equalled in 
this city since. When the great Louisi- 
ana Purchase Exposition — World's 
Fair, opened in St. Louis it was the 
subject of my review — Frank Layng 
Talbot, who loomed up as having se- 
cured many of the "niost valuable con- 
cessions, among which were "Paris on 
the Pike," "Golden Chariots," "Elec- 
tiical Gondolas on the Lagoons," etc., 
etc. 

In 190.J, he again went with a road 
show and put out one of the best that 
had played the boards iii many years. 
Returning to St. Louis again the fol- 
lowing year (1906), Mr. Talbot opened 
the Lyceum, the moving picture thea- 
tre on Sixth street, which has since 
been torn down to make way for the 
handsome "Talbot's New Hippodrome," 
now almost ready for occupancy. The 
Lyceum proved to be the first of its 
kind in the world, and the patronage 
accorded it was something tremendous. 
Two years later, he opened the "Gem," 
just across the way, and on the second 
floor of which he now has his general 
offices. The class of pictures, singing 
and general vaudeville put on by Mr. 
Talbot has never been surpassed in 
St. Louis. True, many others here 
have striven hard to imitate him, but 
they have met one failure after an- 
other. Mr. Talbot had won the con- 
fidence of the public and he gave, and 
still gives, many times full value for 
the small price of admission charged. 

Mr. Talbot wedded Miss Marie 
Flood, a native of Montreal, who is 
associated in the theatrical business 
with her husband, and through years 
of unprecedented success she has 
proven herself \ most efficient and 
capable assistant. 

Talbot's New Hippodrome, which 
opened in October (1911), is the hand- 
somest and most costly moving picture 
and vaudeville theatre in the country. 
No expense was spared to make it the 
ideal amusement place of St. Louis, 
and thousands of dollars were ex- 
pended to construct a building that," 
from the ground up, is as near fire- 
proof as the most skilled engineering 
can possibly make it. 



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The handsome structure was de- 
signed by Uuggan & Huff, of St. Louis, 
in accordance with the personal ideas 
of Mr. Talbot, and architecturally 
speaking, is one of the "show" places 
of the "fourth city." In my opinion, 
shared in by many others, it is the 
prettiest structure in St. Louis, and is 
of re-inforced concrete, erected imder 
the most stiingent and rigid building 
ordinances in the world; laws that 
are almost impossible to comply with. 
The ventilation and heating arrange- 
ments are absolutely perfect, the most 
modern and highly improved systems 
being installed, the air of the entire 
theatre being constantly changed ev- 
ery fourteen seconds. It is remark- 
able, indeed. 

Not only is it the handsomest thea- 
tre in the country, but the largest, 
having a seating capacity of three 



thousand, there being actually more 
seats in the parquet of the New Hippo- 
drome than on the entire three floors 
of any theatre in St. Louis, which in 
itself constitutes a most remarkable 
architectural achievement. 

He is one of the founders of the 
Order of Eagles. He is also a Mason, 
and holds membership in the Friars, 
Knights of Pythias, Actors' Club, 
Actors' Fund, Foresters and many 
others. 

Altogether, Mr. Talbot employs 
about two hundred people, to each of 
whom he pays a neat salary. Every 
Christmas, instead of giving presents 
to his employes, he goes it several bet- 
ter, and sits down to a sumptuous ban- 
quet with them, in one of the leading 
hotels of the city, where over a mag- 
nificent spread, they toast and ex- 
change experiences. 



WILLIAM FRANCIS CARTER. 



Mr. Carter is a native Missourian, be- 
ing born in Farmington, in 1867, of 
parents coming from one of the oldest 
families of Virginia, the father, Will- 
iam Carter, being a distinguished law- 
yer. It was but natural that the son 
should follow in the footsteps of the 
parent, who for a long number of 
years presided on the bench, and at- 
tained for himself a reputation that 
few men can hope to reach. 

W. F. Carter, my subject, was edu- 
cated in Washington University, after 
which he entered the law department 
of the University of Michigan, one 
w^hich has turned out graduates, many 
whom in after years have become the 
greatest lawyers of the country, not 
a few appearing in positions of the 
greatest responsibility and eminence. 

When the class of 1890 was gradvi- 
ated, Mr. Carter was a member of it, 
and during the same year was ad- 
mitted to the bar in his home state. 
. For about two years following, Mr. 
Carter practiced his chosen profession 
at Farmington (Mo.). Being a young 
man, he was anxious to build up a 
large practice. He sought loftier 
ideals and soon realized that he could 
not hope to accomplish what he de- 
sired were he to continue his resi- 
dence in the small town. It was this 
decision, seeking broader fields of la- 
bor, that decided Mr. Carter to locate 
in St. Louis, and this he did. 

Since tlien he has succeeded in es- 
tablishing one of the most representa- 
tive clientages that a lawyer could 
hope for. He has appeared as counsel, 
either for plaintiff or defendant, in 



many of the most important cases 
before the courts, and with signal suc- 
cess. 

In 1907 (on account of his splendid 
financial ability and his keen con- 
ception of banking and corporation 
law), he was chosen for the presidency 
of the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Com- 
pany, then in liquidation. 

Mr. Carter is now vice-president of 
the Mercantile Trust Company, one of 
our largest financial institutions, the 
scope of business of which extends out 
and covers practically every state of 
the Union. 

Aside from these interests, Mr. Car- 
ter is a stockholder, director and offi- 
cer in other enterprises, all of whicli 
are highly successful. He cares abso- 
lutely nothing for public office, having 
never sought political honors. He affil- 
iates, as a rule, with the Independent 
movement, believing in supporting the 
best qualified man, irrespective of poli- 
tics. 

It was in 1893 that Mr. Carter was 
united in marriage with Miss Grace 
Thoroughman, and the couple have 
two children, a son and daughter. 
Beginning life with self-determination 
to achieve distinction in the battle of 
life, he has truly gained headway that 
has all along been marked. No one 
in the state stands higher in his pro- 
fession or in banking circles, he being 
a conservative, broad guaged, deep 
thinking man. He is interested deeply 
in civic improvements and strongly ad- 
vocates anything calculated to advance 
his city's interests. 



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DR. ARMANT HENRI OHMANN-DUMESNIL. 



Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil is a native of 
Iowa, and was born in Dubuque, Sep- 
tember 30, 1857, his parents being 
French people, descending from one of 
the oldest families of France, and 
highly connected. .The doctor had ev- 
ery advantage of a high-grade classical 
and professional education, of all of 
which he took full advantage. 

He is a graduate of the Christian 
Brothers' College, of this city, a^id had 
conferred upon him in 1873 the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts. Three years fol- 
lowing, he completed a full course in 
the Missouri University and had the 
"M. E," and U. S. degrees conferred 
upon him. The young man had, in his 
younger days, expressed the desire to 
some day become a great physician, and 
in this idea he received every possible 
encouragement. In the medical depart- 
ment of Washington University he 
matriculated, and received his diploma 
in 1880. 

Seven years following, the degrees 
of Doctor of Philosophy and of Phys- 
ics were conferred upon the young man. 
He immediately entered upon the prac- 
tice of his profession, engaging in a 
vast amount of research work and de- 
voting every energy to diseases of the 
skin and syphilis. Today he is con- 
sidered one of the most eminent der- 
matologists in the United States. 

The magnificent reputation attained 
by Doctor Ohmann-Dumesnil, even in 
his early days of practice, won for 
him the chair of Dermatology and 
Syphilology in' the St. Louis College 
for Medical Practitioners. In the fol- 
lowing two years, he was selected for 
the same chair in the St. Louis Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
in 1894 in the Marion-Sims College of 
Medicine, while in 1907, he was se- 
lected for the same professorship in 
the Hippocratean College of Medicine, 



in 1910 to the same chair in the medi- 
cal department of Barnes University, 
being today the Emeritus Professor of 
Dermatology. 

In the St. Louis City Hospital, as 
well as the Female Hospital, the Poor 
House and other -well known institu- 
tions, he has served as consulting Der- 
matologist, and this, in addition to 
serving in a similar capacity to the 
St. Louis Health Department from 
1881 to 1911. 

Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil is regarded 
as an authority on his specialty and 
ranks among the leading dermatolo- 
gists of the entire country. He is the 
author of a number of books on the 
subjects which have attracted world- 
wide attention, and much demand is 
made upon his time to read and dis- 
cuss the subject before many of the 
largest gatherings of medical men. 

In addition to this, he has served 
as chief editorial writer of a number 
of the best known and largest circu- 
lated medical periodicals in the Union, 
among which are the St. Louis Medi- 
cal and Surgical .lournal. Quarterly 
Atlas of Dermatology, "Weekly Medical 
Review, American Journal of Derma- 
tology, and others. His handbook on 
"Dermatology" is said by members of 
the profession to be one of the most 
accurate and complete ever issued 
from the press and denotes the closest 
study of the subject. The "History 
of Syphilis," in several volumes, is 
another work of his that has had the 
most phenomenal sale among the pro- 
fession and gained for its author ex- 
tended repute. Dr. Ohmann-Dumesnil 
has been twice wedded. His first wife 
was Miss Lillian P. Baldwin and the 
second ]\Iiss Agnes Loring. No man 
stands higher in the profession and 
enjoys a greater degree of universal 
respect. 



DR. JULES BARON. 



Since 1884, the subject of my review, 
Dr. .Tules Baron, has steadily prac- 
ticed his profession in this city, and 
with success that does not ordinarily 
fall to the lot of every man. 

Dr. Baron is a native of Missouri 
and was born in St. Louis, in 1859. 
At the tender age of six years he was 
left an orphan and was adopted by 
Henry Zoellner and wife. In early life 
he attended the public institutions of 
the city and closely applied himself, 



being always regarded as a studious 
young man. 

After completing his course of 
studies, literary and classical, he be- 
gan the study of medicine in the Medi- 
cal College of St. Louis and became a 
graduate there in 1881. Notwithstand- 
ing he had taken the full course, he 
did not feel as content as he preferred, 
and the result was that he went 
abroad and studied and attended lec- 
tures, pursuing a special course of 



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studies in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Lon- 
don and other great centers, and qual- 
itying himself for the practice of his 
profession under the most eminent 
men of the world. 

Dr. Baron holds active membership 
in several of the large medical organi- 
zations of the country, and has been 
quite active in their councils. To re- 
search work, the doctor has devoted 
no small amount of time, attention 
and money, with the result that his 
great knov.-ledge of medicine and sur- 
gery has been materially broadened. 

In a political way, Dr. Baron is a 
staunch Republican. He believes in 
the principles of that party and has at 
all times strongly advocated them. For 
two terms he has been honored with 
the office of Coroner of St. Louis, since 
which time there has never been a 
complaint of any character filed. Not- 
withstanding Dr. Baron holds a splen- 
did public office, it may be added that 
it was not of his choosing. The people 
knew his skill and his capacity and 
they demonstrated their confidence in 



his ability by electing him to the sam'e 
position thrice, and should the physi- 
cian care to continue in office, his 
election for a fourth term is but a 
matter of holding the election. Dr. 
Baron is the only man who has ever 
held the office for three consecutive 
terms, something never before known 
in the history of St. Louis. 

Dr. Baron stands high in the fra- 
ternal orders of Missouri, and is a 
Mason, belongs to the Knights of 
Pythias, and has proven himself an 
indefatigable worker in the cause of 
fraternalism. 

He is a man of unusually great civic 
pride. He believes in the rapid ad- 
vancement of his city, and has never 
left a stone unturned to do what he 
could to further such improvements. 
As a public official his duties, and 
they are many, have always been dis- 
charged with proper regard for the 
rights of others and I know of no man 
serving the great public who enjoys 
the esteem and confidence of the peo- 
ple more so than Dr. Baron. 



J. CARTER CARSTENS. 



A native lowan, a Missourian by 
choice, J. Carter Carstens has made 
phenomenal headway in the practice of 
law since his location in this city. 
He was born in 1872, and went to 
Chicago in 1890, where he entered 
Lake Forest University. 

Mr. Carstens closely applied him- 
self, taking full advantage of the high 
literary training afforded by the insti- 
tution which he attended, and com- 
pleted his course of studies in due 
course of time. 

Following this, he was offered and 
accepted, the position of financial 
manager for one of the largest con- 
cerns in Illinois, engaged in the manu- 
facture and distribution of high-grade 
gas and electrical equipment, the trade 
of which extended throughout almost 
every state in the country. The posi- 
tion held by Mr. Carstens was one of 
the greatest responsibility, but the 
young man was equal to the occasion 
and held it satisfactorily to his firm 
and with credit to himself. 

Notwithstanding the young man at 
that time had not reached the age of 
twenty-one years, still he was receiving 
an annual salary of more than $3,000. 
In his early years Mr. Carstens had 
oftentimes expressed the desire to some 
day become one of the great lawyers 
of the country. Hence, after serving 
his house for some time he voluntarily 



severed his relations with it in order 
to take up the study of law. He en- 
tered Ruskin University, where he had 
conferred upon him the degree of Doc- 
tor of Laws. 

In 1897 he was admitted to the bar 
and immediately took up the general 
practice of his profession, afterwards 
becoming general counsel for the Uni- 
versal Correspondence College. In this 
capacity he served the institution for 
about two years, resigning the office 
to devote more time to his private 
practice, which was steadily increas- 
ing. 

In beginning the practice of law, 
Mr. Carstens was compelled to make 
the start in life's battle similar to 
hundreds of others. It was a hard up- 
hill fight, but through perseverance he 
has made good, where many others 
have met nothing beyond failure. 
When he was awarded his diploma, 
and walked out of Ruskin University, 
fully equipped to take up his profes- 
sion, the young man had but fifteen 
dollars to his name. This he used 
with the greatest care and his first 
offices were very small and as poorly 
equipped. His present suite is in 
striking contrast with the first one, 
and demonstrates clearly, to my mind, 
the unprecedented headway he has 
made. 

His law library is one of the most 



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extensive in the state, embracing sev- 
eral thousand volumes, not a few of 
which are very costly. It was in 1894 
that he was united in marriage with 
Miss Rose Edith Kuhn, of Frederick 
City, Md., a highly accomplished and 
talented young woman. Mr. Carstens 
has at all times taken a prominent 
part in Masonry and stands high in 
the councils of that fraternity, he 
holding membership in Rose Hill 
Lodge, No. 550, A. F. and A. M.; St. 
Louis Lodge of Perfection, No. 1; St. 
Louis Chapter, Rose Croix, No. 1; Mis- 



souri Council, No. 1; Missouri Con- 
sistory, No. 1, S. P. R. S.; Moolah 
Temple, of the Mystic Shrine and 
others. In addition to these, he holds 
membership in various bar associa- 
tions and leading social and civic 
organizations of the city. 

Mr. Carstens practice is not alone 
confined to St. Louis, but a large part 
of it comes from adjacent states. In 
the legal profession he is generally 
regarded as one of its ablest members 
and a strong advocate of ethics. 



PAUL BAKEWELL. 



I doubt if there is another lawyer 
in St. Louis, or the southwest for that 
matter, with larger experience in pat- 
ent law than the subject of my review 
— Paul Bakewell. 

Mr. Bakewell is a native Missourian, 
and was born in St. Louis in 1858, the 
sou of one of the most distinguished 
members of the state bar, Judge R. A. 
Bakewell, not a few of whose charac- 
teristics are inherited by the son. Mr. 
Bakewell was educated in bis home 
city and attended St. Louis University 
until 1876, after which he entered the 
law department of "Washington Uni- 
versity, an institution that has turned 
out many graduates, who in after life 
have become the greatest lawyers of 
the country. 

It was in 1879 that the subject of 
my review graduated, and had con- 
ferred upon him the degree of Bache- 
lor of Laws. He immediately took up 
the practice of his profession, much 
of which was confined to the higher 
courts. For many years, Mr. Bakewell 
has devoted almost his entire time and 
attention to patents, and is today rec- 
ognized as one of the highest authori- 
ties on patent law, not only in Mis- 
souri, but throughout the United 
States, his counsel and advice being 
constantly sought from distant points. 

In many instances, to secure a pat- 
ent, involves the most intricate and 
difficult problems of law, necessitating 
a vast amount of research work, which 
taxes the most brilliant legal minds. 
It has been no uncommon occurrence 
for the best known patent attorneys of 
the country to journey to St. Louis in 
order to enter conference with Mr. 
Bakewell, an indication, in my opin- 
ion, of his splendid judgment in such 
matters. 

Many briefs prepared by Mr. Bake- 
well have been such as to attract 
world-wide attention. The practice of 



patent law is considered the most diffi- 
cut department of the legal profession. 
Not ■ only does the attorney have to 
possess thorough knowledge of all the 
fundamental principles of law, but 
aLo must have comprehensive knowl- 
edge of mechanical and scientific 
equipment in order to protect best the 
interests of his client. Without this, 
he would be at sea, so to speak, in not 
a fev/ cases that arise from time to 
time. Mr. Bakewell has been a close 
student throughout life and has paid 
particular attention to such details, 
even to the minutest, with the result 
that his services as counsel in thou- 
sands of patent rights cases, has been 
marked by phenomenal success. 

In addition to his large practice he 
has lectured in different universities, 
and in 1904 the St. Louis University 
conferred upon him the honor of de- 
gree of Doctor of Laws. His practice 
has reached enormous proportions, not- 
withstanding he continues to handle 
each case in every detail in connection 
therewith. I doubt whether any law- 
yer practicing in patent law has en- 
Joyed a greater degree of universal 
success than Paul Bakewell. It has 
really been phenomenal. 

It was in 1884 that Mr. Bakewell 
was united in marriage with Miss 
Eugenia McNair, granddaughter of 
former Governor Alexander McNair. 
The union resulted in eight children. 
In his home, as well as in his offices, 
Mr. Bakewell maintains a large and 
costly library and nothing suits him 
better than to enjoy several hours each 
day, whenever his practice will allow 
him, among his books. 

Mr. Bakewell is a close student, a 
widely read man, and one who has 
traveled a great deal, hence is excep- 
tionally well posted. He holds active 
membership in many of the leading 



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organizations and clubs, among wliich 
are the Lawyers' Club of New York 
City, the Noonday and St. Louis Clubs. 
In politics, he is a Cleveland Demo- 



crat and believes in the principles of 
that great party. He also holds mem- 
bership in various bar asociations. Mr. 
Bakewell is a Roman Catholic. 



DOCTOR HORATIO N. SPENCER. 



Dr. Spencer is a native of Missis- 
sippi, and was born in 1845. He re- 
ceived his earlier education under the 
direction of private tutors, afterwards 
graduating from Oakland College. 
This was in 1861, just about the open- 
ing of hostilities between the South 
and the North. The young man was 
popular in his classes and was vale- 
dictorian. 

After completing his literary educa- 
tion, Dr. Spencer matriculated in the 
University of Alabama, where he com- 
pleted his course in 1862, being 
awarded the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. It was shortly after this that, 
hearing the call of his country, he 
joined forces -with the great Confeder- 
acy and fought throughout the entire 
campaign. 

AVhen the war closed, the young man 
immediately entered upon his profes- 
sional career by preparing himself for 
practice. This he did by entering the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
New York City, from which institution 
he graduated with the class of 1869. 
The young physician was still not 
satisfied with his education along med- 
ical lines and went abroad to pursue 
his studies further and have advantage 
of the lectures of some of the most 
distinguished medical educators in the 
world. He attended the University of 
Berlin and took full advantage of ev- 
ery opportunity offered him. 

It was about 1871 that Dr. Spencer 
located in St. Louis and entered the 
active practice of his chosen profes- 
sion, specializing in diseases of the 
ear and nose, in the treatment of 
which he has met with marked success 
and for many years has been regarded 
as an authority in this branch of the 
profession, his practice including not 
only Missouri, but many of the states 
of the Union. Dr. Spencer's reputa- 
tion is not by any means confined to 
the southwest, but extends throughout 
the Union. 

Dr. Spencer has served as a member 
of the faculty of the Missouri Medical 
College, an , institution, that numbers 
among its graduates many of the most 
eminent physicians and surgeons in 
the world. The doctor has done a 
vast amount of research work and has 
devoted no small portion of his spare 



time, when he has it, to writing, he 
being one of the founders of the Amer- 
ican Journal of Otology, as well as the 
St. Louis Courier of Medicine. 

The St. Louis Post-Graduate School 
of Medicine was another of the well 
known institutions that this eminent 
physician assisted in establishing, and 
which was afterwards merged with 
the Missouri Medical College. In 1899, 
when the Missouri Medical College 
was consolidated with the St. Louis 
Medical College and the latter became 
the medical department of Washington 
University, Dr. Spencer was made Pro- 
fessor of Diseases of the Ear. Among 
the organizations with which he is 
affiliated are the American Otological 
Society, American Medical Association, 
and others. 

He is also numbered as a member 
of such institutions as the Society of 
Sons of the Revolution, American Geo- 
graphical Society, Society of Foreign 
Wars, Society of Colonial Wars in the 
State of Missouri, as well as a niem- 
ber of several college societies. 

Dr. Spencer is one of the most char- 
itable men in Missouri and has given 
his services to many who were unable 
to pay, but whose conditions were such 
that the great skill of such a physician 
as Dr. Spencer was badly needed. He 
is a great humanitarian, and many 
acts of his plainly bear me out in my 
statement. To the Bethesda Found- 
ling Home, to the Home for the Aged 
and Incurables, Dr. Spencer has 
granted liberal assistance. 

It was in 1868 that Dr. Spencer was 
united in marriage with Miss Annie 
Kirtland, a native of New York. She 
passed away in 1885. In 1887 the doc- 
tor married Miss Elizabeth Dwight. 
The physician has five children, one, 
Selden Spencer, being associated with 
his father in the practice of medicine. 

For a period of practically forty 
years. Dr. Spencer has served the peo- 
ple of St. Louis and the southwest. 
As an educator he has demonstrated 
time and again the great ability which 
he exhibits in his practice, and today 
nowhere in any part of the country 
does a member of the medical profes- 
sion stand higher than Dr. Horatio N. 
Spencer. 



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DR. HARVEY GILMER MUDD. 



One of the most distinguished prac- 
titioners in the country, pursuing his 
calling in this city, is Dr. Harvey Gil- 
mer ]\Iudrl, a native of St. Louis, a 
man who has reached the highest pin- 
nacle of success and eminence in his 
chosen profession. Dr. Mudd was born 
in 18,57. His parents were native 
Kentuckians, his father being actively 
engaged in the realty business until 
about eight or nine years ago, when 
he passed awaw. 

When a youth, the subject of my 
review attended the public institutions 
of Kirkwood, a suburban city near St. 
Louis. Finishing his course of studies 
there, the young man came to St. 
Louis, where he entered the Hight 
School. When the class of 1876 gradu- 
ated from that institution, young 
Mudd was one of its members. Even 
in early life, while not much more 
than a boy, he had thought of the 
future to come, and after due consid- 
eration finally decided to take up the 
study of medicine, hence I find him a 
student in the St. Louis Medical Col- 
lege, a deoartment of Washington Uni- 
versity, after completing his classical 
and literary education, and in 1881 he 
graduated. Dr. Mudd was regarded 
as a close student by the factulty 
under whom he pursued his studies, 
the young man diligently applying 
himself. 

Notwithstanding the law and medi- 
cal departments of Washington Uni- 
versity have turned out men, who in 
after life have won fame and fortune 
in their chosen professions, and whose 
reputations in not a few instances, 
have become international in scope and 
character, Dr. Mudd was of the opin- 
ion, when he graduated, that he should 
add to his store of knowledge of medi- 
cine. He so informed his professors 
and decided upon further activity 
along those lines. 

He went to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, 
Edinburgh, London and other well 
known centers, where he attended lec- 



tures by men who stand high in the 
medical world as educators. He pur- 
sued his studies in these cities from 
1885 to 1887, and returned to the 
United States well qualified to practice 
his piofession. 

He has served the American Asso- 
ciation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons as 
president and has prepared a number 
of papers, the import of which is read- 
ily understood from his own marked 
success. Dr. Mudd holds active mem- 
bership in the American Surgical As- 
sociation, as w'ell as the St. Louis 
Medical, and St. Louis Surgical So- 
cieties, in the councils and delibera- 
tions of its members of which he has 
at all times stood high and held in the 
loftiest esteem. 

Dr. Mudd has served the National 
Guard of Missouri as Major and Sur- 
geon. From my investigation I can 
say conscientiously that as man, physi- 
cian and surgeon, none enjoys the con- 
fidence of the public to a greater ex- 
tent than does the subject of my re- 
view. He is a strong advocate of the 
ethics of his profession and adheres 
closely to them. He believes in allow- 
ing merit alone to win. and it has 
been upon such principles that Dr. 
Mudd has achieved his magnificent 
reputation. 

In 1892 he was wedded to Miss Mar- 
garet de la Plaux Clark, a highly ac- 
complished and talented young woman, 
and the couple have one son, Stuart 
Mudd. 

The staff of physicians and surgeons 
of the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer 
Hospital, which threw open its doors 
in a spacious and imusually well 
equipped structure several months ago, 
is considered one of the best and most 
carefully selected in the state. Dr. 
Mudd is a member of its surgical 
staff. Being the only institution of 
its kind in the southwest the cases 
that go there are oftentimes of the 
most difficult character upon which to 
operate. 



DOCTOR ISAAC H. CADV/ALLADER. 



An Ohioan by birth, Missourian by 
choice, born in 1850, no member of 
the St. Louis medical profession has 
achieved greater distinction than the 
subject of my review. Dr. I. H. Cad- 
wallader, who during the past ten or 
twelve years has served as medical 



director of the Missouri Baptist Sani- 
tarium, at the corner of Bell and Tay- 
lor avenues, St. Louis. , 

After passing through the various 
stages of literary training and equip- 
ping himself so far as he could, the 
son, who, even during his early days 



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had expressed a desire to some day be- 
come a great physician and surgeon, 
entered Rush Medical College. Prior 
to that time, however, the young man 
had completed a course in pharmacy, 
his idea being to familiarize himself 
as thoroughly with the compounding 
of drugs as to qualify himself for the 
prescribing thereof. It was in 1875 
that Dr. Cadwallader graduated in 
medicine. The doctor has often said 
that the day he received his medical 
diploma was one of the happiest of 
his life. 

In 1900 he was called to the head 
of the great sanitarium over which he 
presides at the present time. 

The Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, 
the staff of which is composed of 
many of the most distinguished 
physicians and surgeons in the south- 
west, is regarded throughout the 
country as one of the most modern 
institutions of its kind in operation. 
When Dr. Cadwallader was selected to 
assume charge, his good wife was 
named for the superintendency, since 
which time husband and wife, work- 
ing in conjunction, hand in hand, have 
succeeded in adding greatly to its 
laurels. I might add here, while com- 
menting- on the institution, that many 
of the most difficult surgical opera- 
tions performed in St. Louis have been 
done at this sanitarium. 

Dr. Cadwallader is considered one 
of the best known authorities on Gyne- 
cology in the state, having for years 
made a specialty of that and obstet- 
rics, and has read before large medical 
gatherings important papers discus- 
sing the subjects. He has contributed 



to the medical press on various occa- 
sions. 

It was, I believe, in 1896 that Dr. 
Cadwallader was wedded to Miss Ella 
Brown, a highly accomplished and tal- 
ented young woman of St. Louis, who 
has proven his greatest assistance, and 
has many times demonstrated her 
splendid capacity for the work which 
she and her distinguished husband 
have undertaken, and are carrying to 
such successful conclusions. 

Dr. Cadwallader is a member of sev- 
eral of the leading professional and 
civic bodies of the city, county and 
state, among which are the St. Louis 
Medical Society, Missouri State Medi- 
cal Association, American Medical As- 
sociation, and others. 

Fraternally, the physician and sur- 
geon affiliates with the great Masonic 
Order, being a thirty-second degree Ma- 
son, and stands high in the affairs 
and councils of the order. His life- 
work has been open as a book at all 
times, whilst his headway has, as I 
have already stated, attracted great 
attention here and elsewhere. He has 
taken every degree in Masonry. 

Dr. Cadwallader has, perhaps, done 
more charity work than any other 
medical practitioner in St. Louis. 
Many, a cold, bitter winter night he 
has gotten out of his warm bed and 
made a professional call, knowing at 
the time there would be absolutely 
nothing in it, so far as compensation 
was concerned. But he went ahead 
just the same. He stands high in the 
ranks of his profession and is gener- 
ally regarded as one of the most com- 
petent of men. 



DR. JOHN B. SHAPLEIGH. 



No aurist in the southwest enjoys 
greater confidence and higher regard 
in the medical profession than Dr. J. 
B. Shapleigh, who, since he entered 
upon the' active practice of his pro- 
fession in this city, has achieved the 
most phenomenal success. 

Dr. Shapleigh is a native St. Louisan 
and was born in 18.57, being of En- 
glish descent. For two years or more 
Dr. Shapleigh attended private institu- 
tions of learning in this city, after 
which he entered Washington Univer- 
sity and took the full academic course 
of instruction. Following this, the 
young man entered the collegiate de- 
partment of this well known institu- 
tion, from which he graduated with the 
class of 1878, and had conferred upon 
him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 



Whilst attending school he often ex- 
pressed the desire to become a great 
practitioner some day, and how well 
his wish has been realized, is known 
to the people of this state. He first 
entered the St. Louis Medical College. 
Here he diligently applied himself, 
taking full advantage of every oppor- 
tunity for knowledge that was offered, 
and in 1881 graduated with the M. D. 
degree. He immediately entered the 
St. Louis City Hospital and served as 
an interne until 1882, after which he 
served in a similar capacity in the St. 
Louis Female Hospital, in both insti- 
tutions gaining practical knowledge 
and experience, which in after years 
proved most beneficial. 

Not content with his training, he 
left St. Louis and studied abroad, 



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making a specialty of ear diseases 
under tlie most eminent specialists in 
Vienna. He was absent two or three 
years and in that time equipped him- 
self well for the practice of his pro- 
fession on his return to his native city 
— St. Louis. 

Dr. Shapleigh has gained a magnifi- 
cent reputation, not only as a practi- 
tioner and ear specialist, but . as an 
educator, lecturing in the St. Louis 
Medical College, now a department of 
Washington University, and in the 
same institution has served as clinical 
professor of ear diseases, as well as 
professor of otology. From 1901 to 
1902 he served as dean of the faculty 
of the medical department of Wash- 
ington University, and is a member of 
the medical staff of St. Luke's Hos- 
pital and of the staff of the George D. 
Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hos- 
pital. Dr. Shapleigh is a member of 
several medical societies, a number of 
which he has served as president and 
in other official capacities. In the St. 
Louis Medical Society, the physician 
served as chairman of the section of 
oto-laryngology in 1907 and 1908, with 
great credit and distinction. 



It was in 1886 that Dr. Shapleigh 
was wedded to Miss Anna T. Merritt, 
a native of St. Louis, a highly accom- 
plished and talented young woman. 
The couple have two children. 

Politically, Dr. Shapleigh affiliates 
with the Republican party, and while 
he has never sought public office, has 
at all times done what he could to 
advance the principles of Republican- 
ism. He is a man of considerable civic 
pride and believes in putting his home 
city in the front rank wherever it is 
feasible and possible to do so. No 
man in St. Louis stands higher in the 
medical profession, and throughout the 
state he is regarded as one of the most 
eminent aurists in practice. The fam- 
ily are communicants of the Presby- 
terian Church. 

A coincident n^ost remarkable in 
connection with Dr. Shapleigh, and of 
which perhaps it would be found diffi- 
cut to find a parallel, is that in the 
same institution in which he was edu- 
cated he has served, step by step as an 
educator, through the various branches 
of study until he reached the position 
of dean. This is, I consider, one of 
the most remarkable occurrences. 



DR. WILLIAM ENGELBACH. 



Of the younger generation. Dr. 
William Engelbach has made marked 
progress in the practice of internal 
medicine in St. Louis, and has reached 
a position of eminence in his chosen 
profession. 

Dr. Engelbach is a native of Illinois 
and was born in Arenzville in 1876, 
and comes from a family of ministers 
and physicians. In his early days the 
physician attended the public institu- 
tions of his native city, after whick he 
became a high school student. Later 
he entered Whipple Academy, located 
a-t .Jacksonville (111.), as well as the 
Illinois College at the same place. 

The latter institution conferred 
upon him the degree of Bachelor of 
Science in 1899 and that of Master of 
Science in 1907. It was in the famous 
Northwestern Medical College, of Chi- 
cago, that the young man won his pro- 
fessional degree, after completing the 
fully prescribed course of studies and 
graduating. That was in 1902. During 
the same year and the one following 
Dr. Engelbach served in the Cook 
County Hospital, where the experience 
he gained in practical training has 
proven of great benefit to him in after 
years. After leaving the hospital the 



doctor pursued post-graduate courses 
in Vienna. Paris and Berlin, and fully 
qualified himself for his life's work. 

During his early life, even while 
attending the public schools, the young 
man often expressed the desire to some 
day become known as a great physi- 
cian, and how well he has succeeded 
is known by the people of his adopted 
state — Missouri. 

I believe it was about 1905, on his 
return from the old countries, that 
Dr. Engelbach located in St. Louis. 
The field he realized as a splendid one 
for young men of ability and perse- 
verance. He has engaged in a vast 
amount of research work and kept in 
close touch with alll subjects of im- 
portance to his profession. Dr. Engel- 
bach has on various occasions demon- 
strated his capacity as a medical prac- 
titioner, and no man stands higher in 
the profession than he. 

Of the several leading medical or- 
ganizations of the city, county and 
state, Dr. Engelbach is a member, 
among which are the St. Louis Medi- 
cal Society, of which he served as 
chairman of the executive committee; 
Misoui;i State Medical Society, South- 



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western Medical Association, American 
Medical Association and others. 

Dr. Engelbacli has served as Ex- 
aminer of the Sanitarium for Incip- 
ient Tuberculosis of Missouri; also as 
a member of the medical staff of St. 
John's Hospital; and a member of the 
consulting staff of the St. Louis City 



Hospital. He has served the St. Louis 
University Medical College as Profes- 
sor of Medicine, and in a number of 
other ways has rendered signal service. 
In 1905. Dr. Engelbach was wedded 
to Miss Foura Reynolds, a native of 
Illinois, and the couple have one child, 
a daughter. 



S. M. BRECKINEIBGE LONG. 



"In all this world," once remarked 
former President Theodore Roosevelt, 
"the thing supremely worth having is 
the great opportunity coupled with 
actual capacity to do well and worthily 
a piece of work, the execution of which 
shall be of vital significance to man- 
kind." To S. M. Breckinridge Long 
has come this opportunity, and the 
fact that today he enjoys one of the 
largest clientages in the private prac- 
tice of law, is but demonstrative of 
his having grasped that opportunity. 

Mr. Long is a native of this city and 
was born in 1S81, a descendant from a 
family, the male members of which 
have furnished the most celebrated 
lawyers, ministers and medical prac- 
titioners. The father of Breckinridge 
Long was William S. Long, a noted 
Confederate major, serving with the 
Forty-fourth North Carolina regiment, 
and seeing much actual service upon 
the fields of battle. Members of the 
Long and Breckinridge families have 
served in positions of the highest 
trust, one, John Breckinridge, being 
Attorney General under President 
Thomas Jefferson; another, Cabell 
Breckinridge, was Secretary of the 
Commonwealth of Kentucky; another, 
J. C. Breckinridge, was Vice-President 
of the United States, Vice-President of 
the Confederate States of America and 
United States Senator from Kentucky, 
while Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge 
was a Congressman from the blue 
grass state. The mother of Breckin- 
ridge Long (the subject of my re- 
view) was Miss Margaret Breckin- 
ridge. 

Still further down the line of de- 
scendancy I find another member of 



the family, Clifton Breckinridge, 
United States Minister to Russia. I 
have in this little volume prepared 
fifty or more records of some of the 
greatest men in the southwest, but in 
no other instance have I found one 
possessing a more distinguished an- 
cestry than Mr. Long. 

In early life, S. M. Breckinridge 
Long had the many advantages of a 
high-class educational training, gradu- 
ating in the academic course at 
Princeton University, w'ith the class 
of 1904. Two years following tuis, the 
young man received his diploma in 
law from Washington University. That 
was, I believe, in 1906. After com- 
pleting his legal education, Mr. Long 
was not yet content. He desired to 
see the world, the larger cities- of the 
universe, and wished to attend lec- 
tures by educators in several of the 
world's greatest law colleges; hence 
he made a trip around the world last- 
ing nearly a year and visiting most 
of the centers of learning in the world. 

Immediately upon his return to St. 
Louis he opened his law offices in the 
Commonwealth Trust Building, and 
here today he controls a . large and 
growing practice. Naturally, Mr. 
Long is a staunch Democrat. He be- 
lieves in the great principles of that 
party, aad about three years ago was 
its candidate for the State Legislature. 

Aside from holding membership in 
a number of professional societies, he 
is active socially, and a member in 
several of the leading clubs. No 
young man in the city enjoys greater 
respect or stands higher in the legal 
profession than he, and I am glad to 
prepare my review of one possessing 
su.ch sterling qualities. 



DR HERMAN TUHOLSKE. 



As a physician, surgeon, educator, 
and citizen, few men have reached the 
high plane of success of the subject of 
my review. Dr. Tuholske was born in 
Prussia in 1848. His educational ad- 



vantages were varied and of eacJi he 
took due account, completing his clas- 
sical studies in the Berlin Gyninasiuri, 
after which he matriculated i'ov a pro- 
fessional career in Humboldt Medical 



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College, whilst in 1S70 he was 
awarded his diploma by the Missouri 
Medical College. 

Following this, the young physician 
went abroad and pursued post-gradu- 
ate courses and lectures in Paris, Lon- 
don, Berlin and Vienna, receiving the 
benefit of training under the most 
skilled medical men of the world, 
(lualifying himself for an after life 
that has been marked by the most 
unprecedented success. 

After finishing his studies, the 
young physician and surgeon returned 
to St. Louis, since which time he has 
achieved distinction far beyond the usu- 
al practitioner, and stands today, and 
is so recognized by the great profession 
of which he is a member, as one of the 
most eminent surgeons and educators 
in the United States. Dr. Tuholske 
has devoted much of his time and 
attention to research work, and has 
delivered lectures, in and out of the 
class room, that have attracted world- 
wide attention and the most favorable 
comment from acknowledged critics. 

I believe it was in 1870 that the doc- 
tor was selected as physician at the 
St. Louis Dispensary. I believe, fur- 
ther, that I can truthfully say that 
the present high standard of efficiency 
of that all important city department 
had its inception from the many im- 
provements undertaken during the 
administration of Dr. Tuholske. He 
made many changes after asisuming 
charge, adding a day and night am- 
bulance service, which the dispensary 
did not have at that time. In addition 
he secured assistant physicians and 
today there is scarcely a better organ- 
ized system anywhere. Prior to re- 
signing in 1876 he was also placed in 
charge of quarantine. During the out- 
break of smallpox in St. Louis in 1872 
Dr. Tuholske was in the thickest of 
the fight to eradicate the dreadful 
scouige and made great headway in 
that connection. 

After Dr. Tuholske resigned public 
office he devoted his entire time to his 
private practice, which was growing 
steadily and had reached the point 
where he was compelled to let other 
matters rest, in order to look after his 
patients in all parts of the city. In 
1874 the Missouri Medical College 
elected the doctor as professor of anat- 
omy, which chair he held for ten years 
or more. In this connection. Dr. Tu- 
holske did some of his best work, his 
demonstrations being ideal in every 
respect and of such character as to 
impress his own thoughts and mean- 
ings upon the minds of hundreds of 
young medical students in his classes. 



Leaving the Missouri Medical Col- 
lege, he accepted the chair of professor 
of surgery in Washington University, 
and here again the distinguished sur- 
geon demonstrated great skill. Dr. 
Tuholske is also chief surgeon of the 
St. Louis Jewish Hospital, as chair- 
man of the surgical section of the St. 
Louis Medical Society, and has been 
honored with the presidency of the 
same organization. In 1899 Dr. TU' 
holske was selected as surgeon of 
Washington University Hospital, an 
office much sought after by members 
of the profession. When the Missouri 
Medical College was merged as the 
medical department of Washington 
University, Dr. Tuholske was called 
to the chair of surgery, a position he 
holds with great credit to himself and 
students. 

The distinguished physician has de- 
voted the best years of his life to sur- 
gery, and is recognized by profession 
and public as one of the most skilled 
in the country. He is a man of great 
sympathy, and in operating exercises 
the tenderest care. His work, both in 
and out of college work, has been 
marked by the most phenomenal suc- 
cess and no man stands higher in the 
field of surgery and medicine than Dr. 
Tuholske. 

Dr. Tuholske was also one of the 
original founders of the St. Louis 
Post-Graduate School of Medicine, 
which afterwards erected the Post- 
Graduate School Building and Hos- 
pital, the first structure of its kind 
ever constructed in the United States, 
and which became an integral factor 
in the medical education of St. Louis 
and the great Southwest. 

When the agitation for a higher 
standard for a medical education came 
up in this city some years ago, one of 
its strongest advocates was Dr. Tuhol- 
ske. He believed, and so pointed out, 
that in order to be qualified to enter 
the medical profession, a person 
should . be properly equipped and 
urged and forcibly demonstrated that 
his views were correct. The result 
is a three years' attendance at medical 
lectures as one of the impro\'ed re- 
quirements. 

Dr. Tuholske has also served the 
Missouri Medical College, now a de- 
partment of Washington University as 
professor of pathology and clinical 
surgery, as well as surgeon at the 
Martha Parsons Free Hospital for 
Children. In this character of work 
the most delicate surgery was called 
for and the fact of Dr. Tuholske's se- 
lection is but an indication of the 
great confidence reposed in him. 



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He was also siirgeon-in-charsje of the 
St. Louis Surgical and Gynecological 
Hospital, as well as surgeon of the 
First Regiment of Missouri, with the 
rank of major. The St. Louis Surgical 
and Gynecological Hospital was estab- 
lished by Dr .Tuholske. It adjoined 
his residence, inasmuch as the doctor 
wished to be near his patients at all 
times. In this work he again met with 
marked success, the institution itself 
being constructed along lines modern 
in every detail. 

Even the wards, rooms and every 
part of the building, was especially 
constructed under personal ideas of 
the well known surgeon and physician, 
only gynecological and surgical cases 
being received, and all the operating 
done by Dr. Tuholske in person, as- 
sisted by one of the most skilled corps 
of assistant surgeons in the Southwest. 

Many of the best known surgeons in 
the United States, at different times, 
visited this institution and went over 
every part of it. The general con- 
census of opinion formed and ex- 
pressed was that no other hospital of 
its character in the- United States 
could equal it, so modern in every de- 



tail and outline was it established and 
maintained. 

Dr. Tuholske is one of the most 
ethical men of the profession. He 
holds active membership in several 
medical societies and associations and 
established the International Congress 
of Gynecology, and is a member of the 
Deutsche Gesellshaft fur chirurgie. 
The American Medical Association, the 
Southern Surgical and Gynecological 
Society, the Southwest Missouri Medi- 
cal Association, the American Medical 
Association for the Advancement, of 
Science and others all have his name 
enrolled as a member. As an acknowl- 
edgement of the great work which he 
has accomplished, of his success as a 
medical and surgical educator, of his 
great headway in hospital work, he 
had conferred upon him by Westmin- 
ster College the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws. 

It was in 1S74 that Dr. Tuholske 
was wedded to Miss Sophie Epstein, a 
native of St. Louis. Medical and sur- 
gical colleges need the services of such 
men as the subject of my review, 
capable, skilled and distinguished sur- 
geons, who work with conscientious 
care. 



DOCTOR HARRY STURGEON CROSSEN. 



There are many men whose miustry 
has won them success, men who 
through perseverance and diligence, 
execute well defined plans which oth- 
ers have made, while those who take 
the initiative are comparatively few 
The vast majority do not realize the 
opportunities for co-ordination of 
forces, and development of new ideas. 

Dr. Harry Sturgeon Crossen belongs 
to what might be termed the "initia- 
tive" class of men, both in and out 
of his chosen profession. He was 
born in Iowa in 18.59, and is still a 
young man. Notwithstanding this, he 
has made such progress in his profes- 
sion that today he is recognized as an 
authority on Gynecology, one of the 
foremost of the country. 

At a very tender age Dr. Crossen 
was left an orphan, losing both par- 
ents, and was reared by an aunt. In 
1889 he matriculated in the medical 
department of Washington University, 
and in 1892 graduated from that in- 
stitution, an institution whose gradu- 
ates are among the foremost men of 
the world, in practically all profes- 
sions and industries. 

Leaving college, he entered the St. 
Louis City Hospital as junior assist- 



ant, through competitive examination, 
and in 1893 was appointed senior as- 
sistant. In the latter part of 1893, 
as a reward for his skill and ability, 
he was named assistant superintend- 
ent of the City Hospital. In 1895 he 
was appointed by Mayor Cyrus P. 
Walbridge as superintendent of the St. 
Louis Female Hospital, serving four 
years. 

When the young physician's term of 
office expired, he was offered reap- 
pointment, but declined, preferring to 
enter private practice, which today 
is one of the largest and most repre- 
sentative in St. Louis. Gynecology is 
claimed by the most successful physi- 
cians to be one of the most difficult 
branches of the medical profession. 
In this, Jiowever, Dr. Crossen has spe- 
cialized with such remarkable progress 
that his reputation is known through- 
out this country and in foreign fields 
of endeavor. He is an acknowledged 
authority, and has read many papers 
before the leading medical societies. 

Not only has he met with signal 
success in private practice, but is 
equally as well known as a medical 
educator, having served as professor 
of Clinical Gynecology in Washington 



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University, as well as Gynecologist to 
Washington University, Mullanphy 
Hospital, Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, 
Betliesda Hospital and others. 

Dr. Crossen holds membership in 
several of the largest professional or- 
ganizations in the country, among 
which are the American Gynecological 
Association, American Association of 
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 
Western Surgical and Gynecological 
Association, American i\Iedical Asso- 
ciation, St. Louis Medical Society, 
Medical Society of Cuj Hospital 
Alumni and others. 

Dr. Crossen's writings periaining to 
the profession, and particularly to the 
subjects of Gynecology and Abdominal 
Surgery in W^omen, have attracted 
wide attention, and papers by him are 
in great demand at medical meetings. 
He is the author of a text book on 
"Diagnosis and Treatment of the Dis- 
eases of Women," which is today used 
in a number of the principal medical 
colleges of the United States. The 
text book referred to is declared by 
medical educators and physicians to 
be one of the best arranged and most 



thorough in existence, and is prepared 
in a style of simplicity that enables 
the student to follow the author close- 
ly throughout. On this work Dr. Cros- 
sen has been the recipient of numerous 
complimentary letters from leading 
medical teachers, and the book has 
attracted attention and comment in all 
parts of this country and abroad. 

In 1895 Dr. Crossen was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary Frances 
Wright, a highly accomplisnb.'' and tal- 
ented young woman oi Ohio. They 
have five children. Theodore, Ruth, 
Robert, Virginia and David. 

Dr. Crossen is a Republican. His 
view of political matters, however, is 
that any party name is of much less 
importance than the character and 
principles of the candidate and of the 
platform upon which he stands, and 
the eminent gynecologist and medical 
educator votes in strict accordance 
with such views. 

No man in the country holds a high- 
er place in the work of the medical 
profession than he, while his success 
is equalled by few. 



GERRIT H. TEN BROEK. 



Representing The Netherlands in 
a jurisdiction covering ten states, and 
having personal supervision of all mat- 
ters pertaining to the government 
which he represents in this territory, 
and in addition to his official duties 
having personal interests in a number 
of these states, Mr. Ten Broek is al- 
most as well known in the prominent 
centers in the states tributary to St. 
Louis as he is in this, his native city, 
where he was born in 1859. Mr. Ten 
Broek is of Holland ancestry. He 
speaks the Holland language fluently, 
and was of particular service to his 
government during the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition, being one of the 
Royal Commissioners accredited to the 
Exposition; for special services ren- 
dered The Netherlands government he 
was created by H. M. Queen Wilhel- 
mina a Knight of the Order of Orange 
and Nassau. 

In early life Mr. Ten Broek attended 
the public institutions of learning in 
this city, after which he decided to 
become a lawyer and chose that voca- 
tion. He began to prepare himself 
for the study of law by matriculation 
in the St. Louis Law School. Before 
graduating in the law he had organ- 
ized the Ten Broek Agency, which con- 



ducted successfully for a number of 
years the business of adjusting mer- 
cantile settlements for St. Louis busi- 
ness houses with delinquent customers 
at a distance. Subsequently Mr. Ten 
Broek organized the present powerful 
organization known as the Associated 
Law Offices, the ramifications of which 
extend not only to every corner of 
this country, but to prominent cities 
all over the world, including in its 
membership over five thousand law- 
yers and law firms in all the civilized 
countries, Mr. Ten Broek remains 
the directing head of the organiza- 
tion. 

Mr. Ten Brock's legal work for the 
past fifteen years has been confined 
to the organization of large corpora- 
tions, among them the American Steel 
& Wire Company, the American Bridge 
Compan.v, the Cullman Coal and Coke 
Company, and others. 

Mr. Ten Broek is a member of the 
Merchants' Exchange and the Mer- 
cantile Club. While his business in- 
terests keep him actively employed, it 
is his theory that every citizen of a 
community owes to the community a 
certain share of his time to be devoted 
to matters of public interest. He was 



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one of the founders of the St. Louis 
Protestant Hospital, and the Hospital 
Saturday and Sunday Association; is 
one of the vice-presidents of the Amer- 
ican Sunday School Union, and is the 
superintendent of the Niedringhaus 



Memorial Sunday School. He is a 
member of the Episcopal Church. 

In matters political, he belongs to 
the Republican party. 

In 1893 Mr. Ten Broek was wedded 
to Mrs. Frances L. Colby of this city. 
They have no children. 



DR. JOHN M. GRANT. 



In reviewing the splendid record of 
Dr. John M. Grant as one of the sev- 
eral prominent physicians and sur- 
geons that appear within the pages 
of this volume, I believe I can con- 
scientiously say I have found no man 
in St. Louis whose progress has been 
more rapid, or who has met with a 
larger percentage of success. 

Dr. Grant is a native of Missouri 
and was born in 1864, a descendant of 
Scotch ancestry. On a farm in Callo- 
way County, the physician was reared 
and attended school, diligently apply- 
ing himself to his studies. After going 
as far as he could in the institutions 
of his native heath, he next went to 
Fulton (Mo.), and entered Westmin- 
ster College, one of the most widely 
known educational institutions in the 
State of i\Iissouri, and one whose grad- 
uates are engaged in all the leading 
professions of the world. 

Dr. Grant was a member of the 
class of Westminster College that 
graduated in 1886, at which time he 
had conferred upon him the degree of 
Bachelor of Science. 

Following his graduation, Dr. Grant 
decided to enter the medical profes- 
sion after thoroughly equipping him- 
self for the practice, and entered upon 
his course of studies in the Missouri 
Medical College in this city (St. 
Louis). From this college he was 
graduated, being a member of the 
class of 1889, being one of the highest 
in the class, having attained the great- 
est percentages in way of examina- 
tion. 



The young physician was given es- 
pecial mention and for two years fol- 
lowing he served as an interne at the 
St. Louis City Hospital, first as junior; 
then as senior interne. It was in 1891 
that Dr. Grant entered upon the active 
practice of his chosen profession and 
made a marked success of it. Dr. 
Grant engages in the general practice 
of medicine, although he has devoted 
much time to surgery. In this con- 
nection he has performed many oper- 
ations that necessitated the most 
skilled knowledge and ability and 
stands high in the councils of his pro- 
fession. 

Dr. Grant holds active membership 
in several of the leading and more 
prominent medical societies and or- 
ganizations of St. Louis, and before 
their gatherings has contributed many 
important papers, entering freely into 
discussions of the same. 

He is a strong advocate of profes- 
sional ethics, and a close adherent of 
them. He belongs to the Masonic fra- 
ternity and, with his family, communes 
at the Presbyterian Church. 

It was in 1893 that Dr. Grant was 
united in marriage with Mrs. Ida C. 
Strieff, a native of St. Louis. To the 
couple have been "born four children, 
one daughter and three sons. 

Dr. Grant enjoys not only the con- 
fidence and respect of the members of 
the medical profession, but also the 
highest regard for his efficiency as 
man and practitioner. 



DR. WILLIAM E. WILSON. 



Dr. Wilson is a native of Michigan 
and was born in 1882, and attended 
the public institutions of his home 
city. After graduating from the b'gh 
school, the young man decided to lake 
the dental course at the University 
of Michigan and immediately entered. 
He closely applied himself and studied 
diligently, with the result that he was 



several times BTighly commended by 
members of the faculty. 

Dr. Wilson, shortly after leaving the 
University of Michigan, came to this 
city (St. Louis), where he entered Dr. 
Angle's School of Orthodontia, and 
was personally trained by Dr. E. H. 
Angle. 

It is a well established fact that 



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manj' otherwise well formed faces are 
almost ruined as the result of defec- 
tive and mal-posed teeth, and while 
under instruction in this splendid in- 
stitution, Dr. Wilson made a close 
study of face deformities. 

About three or lour years ago Dr. 
Angle decided to give up his exten- 
sive private practice here, and moved 
to New York City. At the time he 
stated that he knew of no one better 
fitted to take up his practice where 
he had left off than Dr. Wilson, and 
the young man succeeded him, confin- 
ing his work entirely to Orthodontia, 
pronounced by experts the most diffi- 
cult branch of the profession, and one 
requiring unusual skill and ability. 

When Dr. Angle established his col- 
lege in St. Louis, the scientific treat- 
ment of Orthodontia was practically 
unknown. Prior to that time dentists 
simply had to do the best they could 
under the circum.stances. Today the 
school of Dr. Angle, in New London, 
Conn., is the most widely known pro- 
fessional institution in the world, its 
founder having greatly enhanced the 
value of his text book bearing upon 
the subject and printed in many diff- 
erent languages, and the Angle Alumni 
Society has been established as a re- 
sult of the great work of Dr. Angle, 
who also is the inventor of not a few 
of the most delicate and important 
instruments and appliances used in 
the practice of Orthodontia. 

In the practice of his profession in 
St. Louis, Dr. Wilson, as the result 
of the magnificent special and per- 
sonal training he received under Dr. 
Angle, has experienced the greatest 
success, and is recognized as one of 
the foremost and most progressive 
dentists in the city today. 

In not a few instances, cases of 
facial deformity have reached Dr. Wil- 
son that were apparently beyond re- 



demption. Dentists not versed in the 
professional secrets of Orthodontia 
would have plainly informed the pa- 
tients that they were beyond their 
skill, except in so far as the iactual 
treatment of the teeth or gums was 
concerned. Notwithstanding this, how- 
ever, I find, in my investigations, that 
these delormities have actually been 
remedied and the parties relieved from 
the awful appearances presented when- 
first calling on Dr. Wilson. 

There are many, though, residing 
here, as well as many who traveled 
long distances to be treated by this 
eminent young dentist, who are strong 
in praise of this work, and I am only 
too glad to be in position to review 
the truly splendid record which Dr. 
Wilson has attained along tffese lines. 

Before concluding this review I be- 
lieve it a good idea to give the fac- 
ulty of this great Angle School of 
Orthodontia. It is as follows. Ed- 
ward H. Angle, M. D., D. D. S., pres- 
ident; Dr. Jos. Grunberg, of Berlin, 
Germany, superintendent; F. B. 
Noyes, B. A., D. D. S., of Chicago, 
Embryology and Histology; Dr. Albin 
Oppenheim, of Vienna, Austria, Lec- 
turer on Anatomy and Assistant In- 
structor in Rhinology and Applied 
Orthodontia; Raymond C. Osburn, 
Ph. D., of Columbia University, Com- 
parative Anatomy; Antonie P. Vois- 
lawsky, B. S., M. D., Rhinology and 
. Edmund H. Wuerpel, of St. Louis, Di- 
rector School of Fine Arts. Other 
members of the faculty are Dr. George 
:\I. McKee, of New York City; E. B. 
Core, of New York City; Dr. Milo 
Hellman, of New York City; Dr. A. 
W. Crosby, of New London, Conn.; Dr. 
G. P. Mendell, of Minneapolis, I\Iinn.; 
Dr. F. A. Gouch, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
and Dr. R. B. Stanley, of New York 
City. 



OTTO FERDINAND KARBE. 



Mr. Karbe was born in 1875 at Neo- 
sho, Newton County, Missouri, and 
during his early days attended the 
public schools in his home town. 
When he had reached the age of six- 
teen, the young man laid aside his 
studies, the result of financial reverses 
in his family, but afterwards took 
them up again on his own account, 
without assistance, and while engaged 
at work during the daylight hours. 

It was about 1901 that he decided 
to take up the study of law, and not- 
withstanding he had to do so under 



many difficulties and obstacles that 
probably would have discouraged 
many young men, he stuck to his de- 
termination, with the result that he 
won out. He worked every day, all 
day long, while his knowledge of law 
was secured by lamplight. Whilst 
many young men were enjoying them- 
selves at the theatres or elsewhere, 
young Karbe was poring over law 
volumes. 

Finally he passed the rigid examina- 
tion before the St. Louis' Court of Ap- 
peals, and in 1905 was admitted to the 



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Missouri bar. Mr. Karbe has frequent- 
ly said that this was one of the hap- 
piest moments of his lile, and his pro- 
fession, he has successfully pursued 
from that date to t his, beginning 
active general practice in ]\larch ol 
1905. 

In 1901 he was selected as a member 
of the House of Delegates from the 
Tenth Ward, and served two years 
with distinction and credit to him- 
self. 

While a member of that body many 
measures of importance to public wel- 
fare came up, among which were bills 
regulating the street railway system 
in St. Louis; the mill tax bill that 
created such a furore; street paving 
galore, and many ward improvements. 
In them all Delegate Karbe was in the 
front ranks, fighting and contesting 
every inch of the way, and striving 
by force and main, as well as by vir- 
ture of his great popularity, in de- 
fending the interests of the public, 
and particularly his constituency. 

The Million Population Club, of 
which Mr. Karbe is secretary, was 
formed on the closing day of the great 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The 
following year Otto F. Karbe was 
named for the secretaryship, and so 
admirably has he conducted the many 
affairs of that office he has been re- 
peatedly elected. 

During his incumbency of that posi- 
tion he has introduced many novel re- 
forms and placed the name of St. 
Louis before all nations of the civil- 
ized world. His great work in con- 
nection with the organization is one 
reason why no man in Missouri stands 
more conspicuously in the limelight 
of public opinion as a "booster" for 
St. Louis. Otto F. Karbe drew the 
ordinance making possible the great 
municipal bond issue and has fathered 
several other city ordinances as im- 
portant in character. 

He is also a member and ofHcer ot 
the Mullanphy Emigrant Relief Fund 



Board, to which is intrusted a large 
amount of money originally left in 
trust by Bryan Mullanphy, the scope 
and purposes of which were luily out- 
lined in his will, by which he left to 
the city of St. Louis one-third undi- 
vided interests in all of his property, 
real, personal and mixed, to furnish 
relief to poor emigrants coming to this 
locality. The lund has now reached 
enormous proportions, being estimated 
today at a million or more dollars. 
The men composing this magnificent 
charitable board receive not one 
penny's compensation, and are elected 
to membership on the board by the 
St. Louis City Council. Mr. Karbe 
is its president today. 

I believe it was in 1895 that Mr. 
Karbe was married. Mr. Karbe is also 
owner of what is known as the Model 
Baby Shoe Company, of which concern 
there are only two of its kind in the 
state. The grade oi shoes manufac- 
tured are of the soft sole variety, in- 
tended for the little tots shortly after 
learning to toddle. In this line ol busi- 
ness he has been equally as success- 
ful, and turns out between six hundred 
and one thousand complete pairs. 

He was secretary of the Taft Recep- 
tion Committee, and one of the num- 
ber who journeyed to Washington to 
personally invite the nation's chief ex- 
ecutive to St. Louis. 

Still another great public benefit and 
movement in which he is interested is 
the "City Beautiful" plan, to which 
he .has devoted many hours of valuable 
time. He is in for anything and every- 
thing that will give his home city 
added prestige and more powerful com- 
mercial influence, and has won thc-i 
plaudits of the people as a result. The 
municipally owned bridge approach is 
still another subject in which he has 
taken much interest and devoted con- 
siderable time, too. He is still en- 
gaged in that particular work and 
making the usual magnificent head- 
way that usually crowns his efforts. 



ALPHONSO CHASE STEWART. 



A Tennessean by birth, a Missourian 
by choice, no one of the legal profes- 
sion has achieved more well-earned 
distinction than the subject it the 
author's review^ — Alphonso Chase 
Stewart, member of the law firm of 
Stewart, Bryan and Williams, the prac- 
tice of which is very large, and reaches 
out into many states of the Union. 

Mr. Stewart was born in Lebanon, 
Tenn., in 1848, a descendant of Scott- 



ish nobility. In his early days the 
young man begun his educational 
training in his home town under pri- 
vate tutors, aiterwards matriculating 
in Cumberland University. The dec- 
laration of war in 1861 interrupted his 
studies in that famous old institution, 
and he afterwards attended school in 
Memphis, Tenn., as well as the Uni- 
versity of Alabama at Tu' saloosa. 
When a mere lad of but fifteen years 



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of age, young Stewart responded to 
the call of his country to arms and 
joined forces with the army of the 
Confederacy, seeing considerable ac- 
tive service in a number of hot skirm- 
ishes. Young Stewart was twice com- 
mended for bravery on the field of 
battle by superior officers. When the 
war closed the young man, like the 
great majority of Southerners, found 
his family's fortune wrecked. 

He wanted to enter some good pro- 
fession, and after working about the 
farm for awhile, decided upon law, en- 
tering Cumberland University again, 
at Lebanon. In 1857 the young man 
secured his diploma, though but nine- 
teen years of age, graduating with the 
degree of Bachelor of Law, and the 
County Court actually had to be called 
upon "to remove his legal disability in 
order to permit of his admittance to 
the bar. 

Shortly afterward the young attor- 
ney selected Winchester, Tenn., to 
begin practice of his chosen profes- 
sion, after which he went to Missis- 
sippi. In 1873 he decided to make his 
residence in St. Louis, and begun the 
active practice of law here, afterwards 
becoming a member of the legal firm 
of King, Phillips & Stewart. The firm 
was dissolved several years following, 
and the new firm of Phillips & Stewart 
formed. This arrangement continued 
for many years, during which time 
Mr. Stewart established for himself, 
as well as for the firm, a magnificent 
reputation, second to none in the en- 
tire state. The legal firm of Phillips, 
Stewart, Cunningham & Elliott was 
then formed during 1896, which was 
followed by Stewart, Cunningham & 
Elliott. With the demise of Mr. Cun- 
ningham, the firm became Stewart, 
Elliott & Williams, and when Judge 
Williams ascended the bench, again 
the firm was changed to Stewart, El- 
liott, Chaplin & Blayney. That was 
in 1905, since which the firm has been 
changed to that of Stewart, Bryan, 
Christie & Williams. 

It was in 1889 that Mr. Stewart or- 
ganized the St. Louis Union Trust 
Company, one of the largest and most 
substantial financial institutions in the 
southwest today. He was its chief 
counsel when first established and 
holds the same position today. Mr. 
Stewart is regarded as one of the most 



brilliant attorneys of the state, and in 
many cases in which he has appeared 
as counsel, representing either plaint- 
iff or defendant, he has demonstrated 
a keen conception of law and admir- 
ably handled litigation in which were 
involved many of the most intricate 
problems of law. Not only in legal 
channels, but in matters purely com- 
mercial is he well connected, having 
held many positions of prominence. 
He has served as director of the St. 
Louis Cotton Compress Company, of 
the Schultz Belting Company, Tower 
Realty Company, and other similar 
large interests. 

He is a thirty-third degree Mason. 
In Masonry he has held some of the 
highest offices within the gift of this 
great order and is recognized today as 
one of the foremost Masons of the 
United States, having made addresses 
at not a few of the most auspicious 
gatherings of its members. He is af- 
filiated with many of the leading so- 
cial organizations of St. Louis, among 
which are the Noonday Club, Racquet 
Club and others. 

For three years Mr. Stewart served 
as head of the Board of Police Com- 
missioners. In politics Mr. Stewart is 
a staunch advocate of the principles 
of Democracy. Since 1889 he has been 
one of the trustees of the Missouri 
Valley College, in Marshall, Mo. To 
its advancem'ent he has devoted much 
of his time and never permits the op- 
portunity to pass w^hen he can add to 
that already great labor of love he has 
performed for this splendid institution. 
"Stewart Chapel," named in his honor, 
stands as a monument to his many 
efforts. 

In 1871 Mr. Stewart was w-edded to 
Miss Elizabeth Smith, a native of Win- 
chester, Franklin County, Tennessee. 
The couple have one son. Dr. S. S. 
Stewart, who controls a large practice 
in the capital city of Arkansas, in 
addition to being one of the chief sur- 
geons for the Iron Mountain railroad. 
The other child, a daugnter, Miss Har- 
riet, was wedded to Judge G. H. Wil- 
liams. 

As chief counsel for the St. Louis 
Union Trust Company, which he or- 
ganized, he has met with marked suc- 
cess and has always striven for the 
civic advancement of St. Louis, con- 
tributing liberally to projects perfected 
with that object in view. 



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WILLIAM BUTTS ITTNER. 



Enjoying national reputation as an 
architect of educational buildings, Wil- 
liam B. Ittner, official architect for 
the St. Louis Board ol Education, and 
designer of many of the most beauti- 
ful structure in the country, has ad- 
vanced to the front rank of architec- 
ture with a rapidity that is Remark- 
able, to say the least. 

]Mr. Ittner was born in 1864. After 
attending the public schools, young 
Ittner pursued his studies further in 
the manual training department of 
Washington University, he enjoying 
the distinction of having been a mem- 
ber of the first class to graduate from 
that famed institution. In 1884 he 
entered Cornell University, at Utica, 
N. Y., as a special student in architec- 
ture, and in 1904, after having been 
educated under the direct spervision 
of the most skilled architects in the 
world, opened his first oflice. The 
many magnificent structures in vari- 
ous parts of St. Louis bear testimony 
to his keen knowledge of the prin- 
ciples of his profession. 

As an architect of school buildings 
no man stands higher in that espe- 
cial character of work. The School- 
house Commission in filing its report 
at Washington, unhesitatingly declared 
St. Louis had the best buildings for 
school purposes in the United States. 
It was under the personal direction of 
W. B. Ittner that these buildings were 
erected. It was in 1897 that he was 
selected as Commissioner of School 
Buildings for the Board of Education, 
since which time he has continued in 
that capacity. The school buildings of 
this city possess certain individuality 
in appearance and general construc- 
tion, the personal ideas of Architect 
Ittner, that have attracted almost 
world-wide attention. 

Not a few committees representing 
other large cities have journeyed to 



St. Louis for the sole purpose of study- 
ing the arcuitecture, in itself, a high 
compliment to Mr. Ittner. The ar- 
rangements for beautification, light, 
ventilation and sanitary conditions 
found in all St. Louis public school 
buildings, are ideal in every respect, 
and clearly indicate the deep study 
Mr. Ittner has made of the subject, 
and the excellence with which he has 
had his ideas carried out in erection. 

In 1888 Mr. Ittner was joined in 
marriage with Miss Lottie Allen, and 
the couple have three children. Mr. 
Ittner holds active membership In a 
number of leading St. Louis business 
and social organizations and takes a 
prominent part in all matters for the 
advancement of the city. He is also 
a member of the American Institute 
of Architects, and of the instittuion's 
local chapter, which he has served as 
president. Others are the St. Louis 
Architectural Cflub, Architectural 
League of America, Civic Improvement 
League and the Cornell Club, each of 
which, at one time or another, he has 
served as an official, and with univer- 
sal satisfaction. 

Notwithstanding the marked success 
with which the subject of my review 
has met, as a general architect, his 
main forte is designing public school 
buildings. 

I have been through many school 
buildings during my career as a news- 
paper writer, of more than twenty 
years, and I believe I can, absolutely 
without fear of contradiction, say that 
in St. Louis the buildings used for 
school purposes are far superior to 
those found in other parts of the Un- 
ion. As I have already outlined, about 
each is a certain individuality, while 
the perfection of light, ventilation and 
sanitary arrangements are as near per- 
fect as money and skill can possibly 
make them. 



THEODOBE F. W. ZIMMERMANN. 



A Prussian by birth, a Missourian 
by choice, no member of tne great 
Teutonic race has advanced with 
greater rapidity than the subject of 
my review — Theodore F. W. Zimmer- 
mann. one of the many who since emi- 
grating to tliis country, has speedily 
climbed the ladder of success. 

Mr. Zimmeimann was born in Prus- 
sia in 1843, and when but five years 
pf age was brought to the United 



States by his parents, locating in the 
then Territory of Wisconsin, where his 
father settled on a large farm, which as 
the lad grew oldei", he assisted in cul- 
tivating during his school vacation. 
Until about eighteen years of age, 
young Zimmermann attended the public 
institutions and was regarded as an ex- 
cellent student, and later on he com- 
pleted the regular high school course. 
That was, I believe, about 1858 or 1859. 



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I think it was in 1859 that Mr. Zim- 
mermann came to St. Louis. Here he 
attended Concordia College, where he 
continued his studies lor nearly three 
years. The civil war broke out about 
that time, interiering with his studies 
and the young man lent his assistance 
in recruiting a company of infantry. 
Following this he went to Wisconsin 
to visit his parents, and in the early 
part of 1862 went to Fort Wayne, Ind., 
where he entered Concordia College. 
This institution was a branch of the 
one located at St. Louis. In the latter 
part of 1862 he again returned to St. 
Louis and completed his studies in the 
same splendid institution, from which 
he graduated. 

Until 1863 Mr. Zimmermann engaged 
in teaching in Indiana, after which 
he once more came back to St. Louis, 
and was placed in .charge as overseer 
of the House of Refuge, which posi- 
tion he held for a number of years. 
He received the appointment of as- 
sistant superintendent of the city work 
house in 1870. Here he continued for 
nine or ten years. 

In 1881 Mr. Zimmermann was ap- 
pointed justice of the peace. This 



was during the administration, I be- 
lieve, of RIayor Ewing, and he re- 
mained in that office fully 21 years, 
his decisions winning many favorable 
comments, twelve years of which he 
also filled office of police justice for 
South St. Louis in addition. 

In 1902 ]Mr. Zimmerman took up the 
practice of law, locating his office at 
2626 South Broadway, where it has 
ever since remained, and where he en- 
joys a lucrative practice. In political 
affairs he is a strong Republican. 

Mr. Zimmermann is a Mason and 
very active in fraternal work, in ad- 
dition to holding membership in the 
Red Men. He was wedded in Indian- 
apolis to Miss Elizabeth Ameiss, whose 
father settled in St. Louis in 1836. Of 
this union six children were born, one 
son being named for his distinguished 
father. It was in 1896 that Mr. Zim- 
mermann was offered the nomination 
for the St. Louis Probate judgeship. 
His response to the appeal made to him 
on that occasion is entirely character- 
istic of the man. He asked that the 
honor be conferred upon someone else 
and that he be allowed to work for the 
Interests of the party. 



HUGH KIERNAN WAGNER. 



Notwithstanding in the nation's cap- 
itol at Washington are to be found 
many lawyers whose main practice is 
devoted to patent matters, St. Louis 
can easily lay claim to at least ore, 
who is versed in all of the intricate 
and tedious details of such matters; 
in fact, one who through many years 
of practical experience has gained a 
national reputation. I have reference 
to Hugh Kiernan Wagner. 

Mr. Wagner is a native IMissourian, 
having been born in St. Louis forty- 
one years ago. At an early age, while 
attending high school in St. Louis, Mr. 
Wagner left off his studies and sought 
employment, entering into railroad 
work. That was in 1886. While thus 
engaged he decided the time to cease 
w^orking for others as employers had 
arrived, and in 1892 took up the study 
of law. Mr. Wagner's trend was to- 
ward patents and he started in to make 
a specialty of it. In 1897 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He immediately 
opened his own office, since which time 
his practice in patent, copyright and 
trademark law has been most exten- 
sive. It is one of the greatest in the 
Southwest. In patented devices of 
every character, this attorney always 
took the keenest interest, and this, to- 



gether with the enthusiasm which re- 
sulted has, in my opinion, done much 
towards advancing him so rapidly in 
his chosen profesiiun. 

By members of the legal fraternity 
he is held in high regard. From 1901 
to 1911 he has been an instructor in 
Benton College of Law, lecturing on 
Domestic Relations, Equity Pleading, 
Pleadings in General, as well as on 
Patent, Trademark and Copyright 
law, Legal Ethics, Argumentation and 
other important subjects. In addition 
to this he is a member of vaiious bars 
throughout the country, among which 
are the Supreme Court of the United 
States, Court of Appeals of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, all courts in the 
State of Missouri, and the United 
States District and Circuit Courts, at 
Portland, Ore., Cleveland, Chicago, San 
Francisco, Mobile, and other localities. 
Also of the American, St. Louis and 
INIissouri Bar Associations. He is a 
member of the Local Council for Mis- 
souri of the American Bar Association, 
and in 1911 read an important paper, 
entitled "Mechanical Equivalents," be- 
fore the patent section of that organi- 
zation at its annual meeting held at 
Chattanooga, Tenn. He holds mem- 
bership, as a foreign member, in the 



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Institute of Patent Engineers, a great 
organization of France, as well as be- 
ing a non-resident member of the Pat- 
ent Law Association, of Washington, 
D. C, and the Chicago Patent Law 
Association. 

It will be remembered that in the 
early part of this review I mentioned 
that Mr. Wagner left off his studies 
at the high school at the early age of 
fifteen. Since then, however, while 
working for the railroad company, he 
applied himself diligently at night, and 
the result is he educated himself 
to a magnificent advantage. A num- 
ber of addresses delivered by Mr. Wag- 
ner have been of widespread import- 
ance and have been reproduced in 
many languages. 

On theological and biblical subjects 
Mr. Wagner has prepared not a few 
extensive articles, splendid tributes in 
this connection having been paid him 
by many of the best known theolo- 
gians in the country, here and else- 
where. His writings are numerous 
and relate to a wide variety of sub- 
jects, one book alone containing nearly 
nine hundred pages. 

He is a member of the Associated 
Advertising Clubs of America, and as 
such has performed labor for the or- 
ganization that has proven of great 
value. Many laws, the object of which 
is to prevent the publication of false 
advertising matter, have been drafted 
by Mr. Wagner, in his capacity as 
chairman of th6 Legislative Commit- 
tee of the Association. Some of these 
have already been enacted into law, 
and others are pending, the purpose 
being to incorporate them into national 



law, thereby making their power and 
influence many fold. In politics, the 
subject of the author's comment is a 
staunch Republican, but still of that 
broad-gauged mind that affords him 
every opoprtunity to see and fully di- 
gest both sides of the question. 

Mr. Wagner, in addition to the num- 
erous legal organizations to which he 
belongs, is also afflliated with many 
other orders, in many of which he has 
taken a leading part. Among these 
are the St. Louis Club, Glen Echo 
Country Club, Union Club, Normandie 
Golf Club, Mercantile Club, Missouri 
Athletic Club, Century Boat Club, 
Liederkranz Club, Contemporary Club, 
Public Question Club, Apollo Club, 
Amphion Club, St. Louis Amateur Ath- 
letic Association, Civic League, City 
Club, St. Louis Symphony Society, St. 
Louis Symphony Society, St. Louis 
Advertising Men's League, Tuscan 
Lodge, No. 360, A. F. & A. M., Kilwin- 
ning R. A. Chapter, No. 50, Ascalon 
Commandery Knights Templar, No, 16, 
Molah Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., Mer- 
cantile Library Association, Washing- 
ton University Association, National 
Geographic Society, to say nothing of 
various others in which he holds 
steady membership. 

In June, 1893, Mr. Wagner was 
wedded to Miss Annette E. Hill. The 
couple have two children, both sons, 
Elliott G. Wagner and Paul B. Wag- 
ner. 

In financial, business, social and pro- 
fessional circles, in fact, wherever he 
is known, no man stands higher in 
the esteem of his fellowmen. 



ROBERT E. COLLINS. 



An Illinoisan by birth, a Missourian 
by choice, born in 1851, no man stands 
higher in the legal profession in this 
State than Robert E. Collins. His ad- 
vancement, since admission to the bar, 
has been rapid, indicating his knowl- 
edge of law. 

In his early days young Collins at- 
tended the public institutions of St. 
Louis, and afterwards entered Wash- 
ington University. Here the lad close- 
ly applied himself, taking preparatory 
and academic courses. Leaving this 
institution, I next find the subject of 
my review a student in Washington 
and Lee University, at Lexington, Va., 
this being the institution of which 
General Robert E. Lee, the great Con- 
federate chieftain, was head. It was 
here, in 1871, that the degree of Bach- 
elor of Arts was conferred upon the 



young man. Following this Mr. Collins 
returned to St. Louis and took up the 
study of law in the St. Louis Law 
School, and two years afterwards was 
admitted to the bar as a general prac- 
titioner. He formed partnership with 
J. L. Carlisle, under the firm name of 
Collins and Carlisle, and engaged in 
his chosen profession. This firm after 
several years was dissolved, and that 
of Hill and Collins formed. Later on 
Mr. Collins and D. A. Jamison joined 
forces and the law firm became known 
as Collins and Jamison. For many 
years this arrangement continued, be- 
ing generally regarded as one of the 
strongest legal firms in the Southwest. 
Afterwards Mr. Collins and E. R. Chap- 
pell entered in a partnership arid to- 
day the style is Collins and Chappell. 
Since his admission to the bar Mr. 



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Collins has appeared in many import- 
ant cases, either as counsel for the 
plaintiff or defendant. In much of the 
litigation in which he was interested 
many intricate technicalities and dif- 
ficult problems of law have arisen. 
Mr. Collins, however, in every in- 
stance, has clearly indicated the splen- 
did conception he has of law and prac- 
tice and his success has been marked. 

Although his practice is one of the 
largest and must exclusive in the 
State, Mr. Collins finds time to deal 
in other matters and is interested in 
other enterprises, both real estate and 
financial. The vast interests of the 
Collins family have always been 
looked after by Mr. Collins, and in 
such manner as to have greatly en- 
hanced the value of the property sev- 
eral fold. 

It was in 1873 that Mr. Collins mar- 
ried Miss Ida Bishop, a native of JMary- 
land. The couple have had two chil- 
dren, one ot whom is dead. His beau- 



tiful residence in St. Louis County 
(Kirkvvood) is one of the most attrac- 
tive in that section, whilst genuine 
hospitality is the ideal function within. 
The famly also has a magnificent sum- 
mer home in Massachusetts. In his 
home, as well as at his office, Mr. 
Collins maintains a complete library 
of legal, literary and other splendid 
volumes by the most eminent authors. 
Nothing pleases him better than to 
spend several hours with his books. 
He is one of the best read men in the 
State, and his advice is often sought 
on subjects aside from the law. 

Mr. Collins is a Mason and active 
in that fraternity. He is a communi- 
cant of the Methodist Church. A man 
of much civic pride, he has at all 
times made especial effort to do all 
in his power to advance the material 
interests of his home city, and his 
friends throughout the country are 
legion. 



EDWIN W. LEE. 



In the legal profession there are 
probably more young men than in any 
other locality in the country, popu- 
lation considered, and it might be 
added, there are few but what are 
meeting with success an indication, 
I take it, of superior methods of train- 
ing and the marked confidence placed 
in the younger generation by the gen- 
eral public. Of these who have gained 
such headway in their practice none 
cames more readily to my mind than 
the subject of my review — Edwin W. 
Lee. 

Mr. Lee is a native of Wisconsin 
by birth, though he comes of an old 
Missoui'i family. He was born in 1875 
at Beloit. In early life the young man 
obtained his educational training in 
Smith's Acadefny, afterwards going to 
Massachusetts, where he entered Wil- 
liams College, I believe, at Williams- 
town. He graduated from that well- 
known institution in 1897. From early 
boyhood Mr. Lee expressed a wish to 
become a great lawyer some day, and 
was determined in his efforts to equip 
himself for the general practice of his 
profession. 

Returning to St. Louis he entered 
the St. Louis Law School and closely 
applied himself, taking the full two 
years' course, after which he was grad- 
uated in 1899. Soon afterwards the 
young lawyer was admitted to the bar, 
since which time he has practiced 
steadily, appearing in not a few cases 
involving many of the most intricate 



problems of law, and in which he 
handled the litigation satisfactorily 
and with much success. 

Mr. Lee first associated himself with 
the legal firm of McKeighan and 
Watts. It was but natural that he 
should have gone with this firm, it 
being the successor of Lee and Mc- 
Keighan, his father's firm, Bradley B. 
Lee, one of the best known and prom- 
inent of St. Louis' attorneys. Mr. 
Lee's father passed away in 1897, the 
same year in which the son graduated 
from Williams College in Massachu- 
setts. 

After the demise of Judge Mc- 
Keighan, the style of the firm was 
again changed to that of Watts, Gen- 
try and Lee, as it exists today, and 
of which Mr. Lee is a member. 
The offices are situated in the Com- 
monwealth Trust Building. 

It was only a short time ago that 
Mr. Lee was appointed Excise Com- 
missioner of St. Louis. This office is 
one of the most important within the 
gift of the state s chief executive. 

I have only the highest words of 
commendation for others who have 
held the position. They did their work 
well and brought about many badly- 
needed reforms, but at the same time 
I cannot pass without expressing the 
opinion that the most capable man to 
fill the position is Edwin W. Lee. I 
say this frankly, fully realizing the 
broadness of such an assertion, but 
the facts are here to sustain me in my 



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contention, and I have nothing to fear 
by way of contradiction. 

Every saloon in the city of St. Louis 
is under the direct supervision of Mr. 
Lee. In a great measure, as Excise 
Commissioner, he is responsible to the 
people for their proper conduct. Com- 
missioner Lee is slow to act in any 
matter of importance. He does not 
believe in taking a man's license away 
from him due to public clamor, but 
once the proof of law violation is set 
before him, he acts instantly, after 
first investigating, in order to verify. 
It is such a man that is required to 



fill this all-important public position 
and in the selection of Mr. Lee a wise 
one was made. 

Notwithstanding his public duties 
are many, in addition to looking after 
a large private law practice, Mr. Lee 
finds time frequently to take part in 
a little recreation, and hold active 
membership in several of the leading 
business and social organizations and 
clubs of the city. He is also closely 
identified with the Masonic frater- 
nity, whilst in matters political he is 
a staunch Republican. 



THOMAS BARTLETT HARLAN. 



A New Yorker by birth, Missourian 
by choice, few men have made strides 
to such successful conclusion as has 
the subject of the author's review, 
Thomas Bartlett Harlan, member of 
the legal firm of Reynolds & Harlan. 

Mr. Harlan was born in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., April 18, 1858. The mother and 
father both dying whilst Mr. Harlan 
and his only sister were quite young, 
the two were reared at Louisiana, Mo., 
by an aunt. During early life, young 
Harlan attended the public schools of 
that vicinity, and later on entered a 
college of the same city, where he 
remained for about a year. In 1886 
and the early part of 1887 I find the 
young man matriculating in tlie Mis- 
souri State University at Columbia, 
where he was taking a course of civil 
engineering. 

Mr. Harlan was in his twentieth year 
when he first came to St. Louis. He 
was desirous of studying law, and 
while mapping out his course engaged 
in the business of insurance. He 
bought a volume of Blackstone in com- 
pany with a friend (W. I. Carroll) 
employed at the same office, and every 
morning the two young men would go 
to their work an hour or two prior to 
opening of the day's business and read 
law. Mr. Harlan was determined to 
master the book, and eventually suc- 
ceeded. Afterwards they were taught 
Latin and English by Conde B. Fallen. 

Following this young Carroll decided 
to forsake the study of law and en- 
tered the ministry. But not so with 
the subject of my review. Mr. Harlan 
had set his heart and soul on law, and 
in 1890, two years after reaching this 
city, entered the St. Louis Law School. 
In another two years he was admitted 
to the bar. A pecnliar incident in this 
relation was that the first jury case 
Mr. Harlan tried was before Judge 



Valiant, the distinguished jurist who 
was one of the examiners of the young 
attorney when he applied for admis- 
sion to the bar. 

After graduating Mr. Harlan formed 
a partnership" with Matthew Given 
Reynolds, one of the most brilliant 
attorneys of the Missouri bar, and a 
man who stands unusually high in the 
profession. This arrangement contin- 
ued until the time of Judge Reynolds 
was taken up almost entirely by virtue 
of his duties as attorney of the United 
States Court of private land claims. 

Following the termination of the 
partnership Mr. Harlan practiced alone 
for several years and then became a 
member of the legal firm of Taylor & 
Harlan. After Judge Reynolds had 
completed his work a new firm, under 
the title of Reynolds, Koehler, Reiss & 
Harlan was organized. Afterwards, 
when Judge Reynolds was elected to 
the circuit court judgeship, the firm 
was -dissolved. That was in 1905. Fol- 
lowing this the firm of Harlan, Jeffries 
& Wagner was formed. This firm con- 
tinued until Mr. Harlan and Judge 
Reynolds again joined forces under the 
present style of the firm of Reynolds 
& Harlan. Mr. Harlan has appeared 
either as counsel representing plaintiff 
or defendant, and his success has been 
something remarkable. 

Whilst the major portion of Mr. 
Harlan's work has been devoted to. the 
practice of law he was one of the 
principal organizers of the St. Louis 
and Rocky Mountain Pacific Company, 
a company having a total capitaliza- 
tion of $11,000,000 and owning tens of 
thousands of acres of the finest bitu- 
minous coking coal land in the north- 
ern section of New Mexico. This com- 
pany operates more than a hundred 
miles of standard guage railway, 
through a subsidiary company known 



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as the St. Louis Rocky Mountain and 
Pacific Railroad Company. 

Mr. Harlan wed Miss Lena Carroll, 
a native Misourian, and the couple 



have two children, one son and one 
daughter. He holds membership in a 
number of the leading business and 
social organizations of the city. 



JOSEPH SAMUEL CARR. 



Although a comparatively young 
man, none has made movi rapid prog- 
ress in the financial world than the 
subject of the author's review and suc- 
ceeded in attaining a position of 
greater eminence in the few years 
that has fallen to the lot of Joseph 
Samuel Carr. 

Mr. Carr is a Missourian by birth, 
having firsL seen the light of lay in 
Howard County, November 12, 1877. 
His father was Dr. Washington M. 
Carr, one of the best known physicians 
in Howard County raid a mau who, due 
to his great skill in hiedical practice, 
enjoyed a clientele that was very large, 
notwithstanding there were many 
other practitioners in that section of 
the state. 

In his early years Mr. Carr attended 
the common schools afforded in the 
locality of his birth, and soon stood at 
the head of his classes. Throughout 
the courses of classes young Carr dili- 
gently applied himself, a trait that has 
followed him in after life, and no 
doubt has much to do with the un- 
precedented success with which he has 
steadily met, particularly in banking 
circles. After completing his common 
schooling the young man next entered 
the state normal at Kirksville, where 
he established an enviable record, and 
later on attended school at Stanberrv. 
Mo. 

When Mr. Carr finished his educa- 
tional work he considered several vo- 
cations for his life work. Each he 
thought over long and fully, and finally 
determined upon banking. Hence, at 
the early age of sixteen, I find him 
entering upon his commercial career. 
One year later the young man, just 
turning his seventeenth year, was se- 
lected for the assistant cashiership of 
the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank. 
This institution is at Center, Mo., one 
of the most progressive localities in 
that part of the commonwealth. His 
record in that capacity soon attracted 
the attention of the president and sev- 
eral of the directors. 

The manner in which he adapted 
himself to the work, although just out 
of school, I might say, would have 



been even creditable to more expe- 
rienced men, and so, in 1S96, while in 
his nineteenth year, he was made cash- 
ier of the bank in question, in my 
opinion the youngest man to hold such 
an important executive and financial 
position in the entire west. I have 
made quite a number of inquiries in 
connection with this, and have found 
no instance where there is record of 
any one younger than Mr. Carr having 
been similarly employed. 

Mr. Carr remained with the bank 
until 1905, when he came to St. Louis, 
where, at the age of twenty-eight, he 
organized the Chippewa Bank, located 
on South Broadway, this city, the year 
following (1906), and today is one of 
the most substantial institutions in St. 
Louis. True there are much larger 
banks, but for conservative manage- 
ment, safe conduct of affairs and exec- 
utive efficiency there is no institution 
similar In character that suprasses the 
Chippewa Bank. 

I\Ir. Carr today holds the position of 
cashier, besides being one of i'ts direc- 
tors, an institution, in my opinion, 
that, long after he has gone to his re- 
ward, will stand as a monument to the 
perseverance and progressiveness of 
American young manhood. I find, from 
carefully preserved statistics, that the 
Chippewa Bank is one of the fastest 
growing enterprises in the southwest, 
its deposits having increased steadily 
from the date of its opening. 

The subject of the author's review 
has made banking a life study. Many 
hours buring midnight oil have been 
expended by him, and even now, with 
the magnificent insight he has into the 
vast financial problems of the day, he' 
devotes a great part of his spare hours 
to the reading and studying of the 
question. 

Mr. Carr holds membership in the 
Mercantile and other well known clubs 
and business organizations of St. Louis 
and the state. He advocates the prin- 
ciples of the Democratic party, al- 
though he takes no active part in mat- 
ters of a political nature. He is a 
communicant of the Christian Church, 
which he has attended for many years. 



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LOUIS THEODORE NOLKER. 



Although a comparatively young 
man none stands higher in the busi- 
ness life of St. Louis than the subject 
of the author's review, Louis T. Nol- 
ker, since 1S99 an officer of the Com- 
mercial Electrical Supply Company 
and one of the active men in his line 
of trade in the southwest. The elec- 
tilcal business, perhaps more than any 
other, has enjoyed a remarkable 
growth in Missouri during the past 
ten or fifteen years, and Mr. Nolker's 
company has contributed much to its 
advancement. Today he is considered 
one of the best posted men on elec- 
trical affairs in the state. 

Louis Theodore Nolker is a native 
Missourian, having been born in St. 
Louis in 1877, since which time he has 
steadily resided in the city. In his 
early life he secured his educational 
training in the public schools, after 
which he entered the Christian 
Brothers' College, and in 1898 was a 
member of the graduating class from 
Smith's Acadmey, one of the best 
known educational institutions, I be- 
lieve, in the country, many of its grad- 
uates being numbered among the busi- 
ness men of St. Louis. Mr. Nolker 
had scarcely been out of school a year 
before he entered the electrical busi- 
ness, and has since made a close study 
of all of its principles. 

His first work in that connection 
was as an employe of the Kinloch 
Telephone Company. Here he closely 
applied himself and took advantage of 
every opportunity that presented itself. 
It was in March, 1899, that he asso- 
ciated himself with the Commercial 
Electrical Supply Company as its vice- 
president and treasurer, being one of 
the company's organizers. 



In this dual capacity he served for a 
number of years, and in 1906 was se- 
lected for the presidency of the cor- 
poration. Having made electricity al- 
most a life-study, Mr. Nolker was in 
position to cope in contests for work, 
let on bids, with the keenest men in 
the trade. Many instances could be 
related where he has outgeneralled 
combinations made against him in sub- 
mitting bids for business. So satisfac- 
tory has his administration of the 
affairs of his company been that today 
it is recognized as one of the leaders 
in St. Louis, and in financial circles 
considered one of the strongest and 
the management of the most conserva- 
tive character. 

Mr. Nolker has held other important 
positions of trust, among which were 
the secretaryship and treasurership of 
the St. Louis Tin & Sheet Metal Com- 
pany, the vice-presidency of the Guar- 
antee Electrical Company, and others. 
He holds membership in the National 
Irrigation Association and is one of its 
officials, in addition to the St. Louis 
Credit Men's Association. 

He has also served as president of 
the Smith Academy Alumni Associa- 
tion and on the board of directors of 
the Latin-American Club and Foreign 
Trades Association. Mr. Nolker is a 
Mason and a man of great civic pride, 
and has always interested himself in 
everything pertaining to the advance- 
ment of the city, county and state. 

He holds active membership in the 
Glen Echo Country Club, as well as 
in the Missouri Athletic, Union, Valley 
Park Canoe and other clubs as well as 
several other - business organizations. 



RICHARD A. JONES. 



Another St. Louis lawyer who has 
achieved wonderful success in his prac- 
tice is Richard A. Jones, a New Yorker 
by birth, Missourian by choice, and 
one of the most able attorneys in the 
state. He was born in 1869 at Bing- 
hampton, N. Y. 

In Pittston, Penna., Richard A. Jones 
attended the public schools, and later, 
at Binghamton. Following the com- 
pletion of his ordinary schooling he, 
decided to enter the practice of law 
and began its study, with the result 
that in 1893 he was admitted to the 
bar in Omaha, Neb., and became a 



member of the legal firm of Brome 
and Jones. 

Like hundreds of other ambitious 
young men when he heard the call of 
the great west he journeyed to St. 
Louis and in 1896 was admitted to the 
Missouri bar, since which time his 
success has been little short of phenom- 
enal, he appearing in many cases in 
which were involved some of the most 
difficult legal problems, but in each 
instance he was fully equal to the 
occasion and handled his cases with 
wonderful success. 

Shortly after Mr. Jones' admission 
to the bar in Misouri he joined forces 



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with Charles R. Crouch, and the firm 
of Jones and Crouch was formed. This 
arrangement continued until 1898, 
when both young men threw up their 
practice, rapidly becoming lucrative, 
and enlisted with Battery A of this 
city and saw active service in the 
Spanish-American war, being stationed 
principally at Porto Rico. 

It was in 1898 that they returned to 
the United States and Mr. Jones again 
took up the active practice of his pro- 
fession, foiming a partnership with 
M. M. Herold under the firm title of 
Jones and Herold. Mr. Herold passed 
away about eleven years ago, since 
which time the surviving partner, Mr. 
Jones, has continued practice alone. 
Mr. Jones is a forceful orator and 
makes a splendid impression on both 
judge and jury. As counsel, represent- 



ing either plaintiff or defendant, he has 
appeared in some of the most inter- 
esting litigation before the courts, and 
with signal success. He is regarded as 
one of the hardest workers in the pro- 
fession in behalf of his clients and his 
following is of a most representative 
character. 

About seven or eight years ago Mr. 
Jones was united in marriage with 
Miss Alice Pollard, daughter of former 
Congressman H. M. Follard, who in his 
time was one of the most brilliant law- 
yers of the St. Louis bar. Mr. Jones 
holds active membership in several of 
the leading clubs of the city and is a 
communicant of the Methodist Church. 

His rise in life, and more particu- 
larly, in his profession, has been rapid, 
and no man enjoys the esteem of asso- 
ciates to a greater extent than Richard 
A. Jones. 



JUDGE C. ORRICK BISHOP. 



An able lawyer, a splendid orator, a 
distinguished jurist, a magnificent 
reader of human nature, aptly de- 
scribes the subject of my review, Judge 
Campbell Orrick Bishop. 

Judge Bishop is a native Missourian, 
and^was born in Union in 1842. He 
was* scarcely five years of age when he 
was brought to this city, and until he 
was about ten or twelve years old was 
educated in private institutions. He 
afterwards entered the high school, 
from which he graduated with highest 
honors with the class of 1858. Follow- 
ing this young Bishop entered West- 
minister College at Fulton, Mo., where 
he also graduated, being awarded the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. That was, 
I believe, about 1862. Twenty-nine 
years later the degree of Master of 
Arts, and, in 1903, that of Doctor of 
Laws, were conferred upon him by the 
institution. 

Following the leaving off of his 
studies Judge Bishop did railway cleri- 
cal work for four years, after which he 
entered the law department of Louis- 
ville University and graduated in 1868, 
with degree of Bachelor of Laws. Im- 
mediately afterwards Judge Bishop 
came back to St. Louis and took up 
the general practice of his chosen pro- 
fession. Almost from the start the 
young attorney made considerable 
headway and finally, in 1883, he was 
appointed assistant circuit attorney, 
in which capacity he served faithfully 
for nearly fifteen years, after which 
he once more took up the private 
practice of law; however, though, for 
but a short time, as Govenor Joseph 
Wingate Folk appointed him again 



to the office and he again served for 
four years. 

In the great boodling cases the suc- 
cessful prosecution of which made 
Folk famous throughout the entire 
civilized world. Judge Bishop mate- 
rially assisted, preparing case after 
case. In 190.5 Judge Bishop was ap- 
pointed to the St. Louis Circuit Court 
bench and he served there until about 
four years ago. His decisions were 
fair and just and won the highest re- 
spect from bar and client alike, and he 
was almost invariably sustained by the 
higher tribunals on appeal. After leav- 
ing the circuit bench the able jurist 
again returned to private practice, 
since which time he has continued in 
such. In the preparation of cases no 
attorney bears a better reputation for 
care, whilst as an orator he has no 
superior in the courts of Missouri. In 
delivery he is forceful and impressive 
and has never allowed himself to take 
the slightest advantage over a weaker 
opponent. 

From 1894 to 1910 Judge Bishop was 
professor of criminal law in Washing- 
ton University and holds the same 
chair in St. Louis University, and 
through frequent contributions from 
his pen to literary and legal periodi- 
cals he has become one of the best 
known attorneys in the southwest. 

Judge Bishop holds active member- 
ship in a number of the leading clubs 
and organizations of St. Louis, and in 
no civic movement of any consequence 
has he been absent. He is a strong 
advocate for all that is good and clean, 
and abhors machine politics. 



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JOHN MARTIN HOLMES. 



A practical, self-made man, attorney 
of considerable note, with reputation 
known far and wide, forms about as 
accurate a description as I believe can 
be had of John Martin Holmes, senior 
member of the legal firm of Holmes, 
Blair and Koener. 

Mr. 'Holmes is a native Missourian, 
having been born in St. Louis in 1848. 
In early life young Holmes was sent 
to private institutions in this city, 
where, under the most competent 
teachers money could procure he was 
prepared for the after battles of life. 

Later on Mr. Holmes entered Hills- 
boro Academy and then attended Hli- 
nois College, situated at Jacksonville, 
from which he graduated with highest 
class honors, having conferred upon 
him the degree of B. A. That was in 
1867, I believe. 

The following year, having com- 
pleted his legal studies, the young man 
was admitted to the bar, since which 
he has steadily practiced his profession 
in this city. For quite a while he 
practiced alone, his clientele growing 
gradually. In 1874 he joined forces 
with T. T. Player. His practice has 
never suffered a decline, and today is 
much larger than at any time during 
the career of this able counselor. 

His partnership arrangement with 
Mr. Player continued until about 1881, 
when he entered partnership with 
Ralph Talbot, who afterwards left St. 
Louis, going to Colorado to make his 
home. The present firm was organized 



about seven years ago and is consid- 
ered one of the strongest in the state, 
its members appearing in many cases 
of importance. 

Mr. Holmes is one of the best read 
men in the southwest, not only on sub- 
jects pertaining to law, but various 
others equally as interesting and intel- 
lectual. He is a member of several 
bar associations and highly esteemed 
in legal and business circles, represent- 
ing some ot the largest concerns in the 
city. Mr. Holmes is considered one of 
the best orators of the local bar and 
presents his cases in a masterly man- 
ner. In matters political he is a 
staunch advocate of Democracy and 
has worked unceasingly for the ad- 
vancement of Democratic principles 
throughout the city, county and state. 

Whilst he has never sought public 
office he has never wavered in devo- 
tion to his political creed and has 
made numerous speeches in behalf of 
Democratic candidates. He is one of 
that small army of well thinking men 
who prefer to do what they can for the 
other man, so long as the latter is the 
right man and will make the best 
public servant. 

It was in March, 1888, that he was 
married to Miss Ina Meston, a native 
of Scotland and a most estimable young 
woman. Unfortunately he lost his wife 
about thirteen years ago in Colorado 
Springs, Colo. The couple had three 
children, two daughters and one son. 



JUDGE HENEY STEWART CAULFIELD. 



I have often made the assertion in 
general conversation that the judges 
of the St. Louis Court of Appeals were 
nearer my views of an ideal judiciary 
than any I know of, being members 
of the bar who stand high in the con- 
fidence of the profession, each learned 
in every branch of the law and well 
qualified for the high position of trust. 

One of the associate judges of this 
court is Henry Stewart Caulfield, who, 
although of the younger generation, 
has distinguished himself, not alone as 
a member of the court, but while serv- 
ing his state in Congress. He is a 
native St. Louisan and was born in 
1874. 

In early life he attended the public 
schools, afterward entering St. Charles 
University at St. Charles, Mo. 

In 1895 he was graduated from 
Washington University and later on 



admitted to the bar. Mr. Caulfield im- 
mediately entered practice. Being a 
man of marked ability he was not long 
in establishing a remunerative client- 
age, becoming general counsel for one 
of the large trust companies about two 
years after graduating, which he held 
until 1904. He was also a director of 
the financial institution. 

In the trial of cases before the 
various courts Judge Caulfield long 
ago demonstrated that he was equally 
at home in the various branches of 
jurisprudence, winning a large per- 
centage of cases entrusted to his care. 
Politically he wields much influence, 
being regarded generally as one of the 
leaders of Republicanism in St. Louis. 
It was in 1906 that he was elected to 
Congress and whilst seiwing the people 
in the national legislative halls he 



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again and again gave evidence of tiis 
great capacity as lawyer, statesman 
and orator. 

As one of the associate justices of 
tiie St. Louis Court of Appeals lie has 
more than ever shown the splendid 
knowledge of law he possesses, his 
opinions being models of judicial intel- 
ligence, not a few of which have been 
used in other states by prominent 



jurists in the decision of important 
litigation. 

It was in 1902 that Judge Caulfield 
was united in marriage with Miss 
Fannie Delanno, a native of Missouri 
and a resident of Cuba, Mo. Judge 
Caulfield holds membership in the Mer- 
cantile Club of this city, as well as 
other leading organizations, and is also 
an Odd Felllow. 



DR. WALTER C. G. KIRCHNER. 



Dr. W. C. G. Kirchner stands in the 
front rank of St. Louis surgeons. 

He is a native Missourian, having 
been born in St. Charles in 1875, his 
father also being a prominent physi- 
cian. 

As a lad he attended the public 
institutions of learning in his home 
city, after which when he moved to 
St. Louis about 1882 he attended the 
local public schools. He is a graduate 
of the under public schools of St. Louis 
as well as the St. Louis High School. 
His diploma from the latter bears the 
date of 1894. Immediately thereafter 
the young man entered Washington 
University, from which he also gradu- 
ated in 1897, being awarded the degree 
of A. B. Shortly afterwards he en- 
tered the medical department of the 
same institution and graduated in med- 
icine and surgery in 1901. after which 
he took up the active practice of his 
profession, with marked success from 
almost the start, beginning as "junior 
physician" at the St. Louis City Hos- 
pital. 

Here he served for about a year 
when he w^as advanced to the position 
of "senior physician," and after the 
same length of time was selected as 
assistant superintendent, and in 1907 
was made superintendent. Throughout 
his entire connection with this large 
city institution the young medico ad- 
vanced from position to position purely 
upon merit. 

Since his return to private practice 
he has built up a very lucrative one, 
and to catch him in his offices aside 
from his regular office hours is rather 
difficult. Dr. Kirchner is highly re- 
garded by the profession and holds ac- 



tive membership in several of the best 
known organizations affiliated with 
physicians. Among these are the St. 
Louis Medical Society, Missouri State 
Medical Society, American Medical 
Association, St. Louis Surgical Club, 
Southern Surgical and Gynecological 
Association, American Association of 
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and 
others. The membership of the last 
named associations is limited. 

Dr. Kirchner is also vice-president 
of the local organization of the ^Medical 
Reserve Corps, U. S. A., a member of 
the St. Louis Academy of Science, a 
member of the honorary society of 
Sigma XI, ex-president of the Medical 
Society of the City Hospital Alumni 
and other well known societies. The 
physician has written quite a number 
of interesting articles, usually review- 
ing some case that passed under his 
observation. Not a few of the papers 
prepared by Dr. Kirchner have at- 
tracted much attneion, among w'hich 
are those bearing the titles of "Sur- 
gery of the Spleen," "Treatment of 
Sliding Hernia," "Conclusions Based 
on Observations of Five Hundred Cases 
of Fractured Skull." "Treatment of 
Wounds of the Heart." Several of the 
operations performed by Dr. Kirchner 
during his incumbency as superintend- 
ent of the St. Louis City Hospital have 
attracted much attention. In one 
instance he actually took twelve 
stitches in a man's heart, which had 
been wounded, and the man is living 
today. This operation I merely men- 
tion to demonstrate the great progress 
that surgery has made and the further 
fact of this work having been done by 
a St. Louis surgeon. 



DR. PRANK J. LUTZ. 



Were I requested to name several of 
the most eminent surgeons in St. Louis 
one of the first that would appear in 
my mind would be that of Dr. Frank 
J. Lutz, subject of my review and sur- 



geon-in-charge of Josephine Hospital 
on South Grand Avenue. 

Dr. Lutz is a native Missourian and 
was born in St. Louis in 1855. He is 
of Goiman descent, his father having 



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emigrated to the United States about 
1827. 

As a lad the doc;tor attended the 
public schools of this city. In addition, 
he finished off in a European gym- 
nasium, as well as becoming a student, 
in St. Louis University. From the last 
named institution he graduated with 
the class of 1874, after which he en- 
tered the St. Louis Medical College, 
from which he received his medical 
diploma in 1876. 

Following this Dr. Lutz again went 
abroad, where he continued his studies 
in France, Germany and England, at- 
tending lectures in many of the larger 
European cities by the most eminent 
medical authorities in the world and 
thoroughly qualifying himself for the 
practice of the profession on his return 
to the United States. Dr. Lutz has 
many times demonstrated his ability as 
physician and surgeon. He has served 
as a member of the state health board, 
and it was while acting in that ca- 
pacity that he strongly advocated 
measures that meant much to all local- 
ities of the commonwealth. He holds 
membership in a number of the lead- 
ing profesional organizations, and has 
read many important papers before 
their conventions, at all times being 
accorded the closest attention. I be- 
lieve it was in 1890 that he served as 
president of the St. Louis Medical So- 
ciety, while a year or two previous to 
that he held a similar position with 



the state body. He was also president 
of the International Association of 
Railway Surgeons in 1896. Dr. Lutz 
is one of the original organizers of the 
St. Louis Surgical Society and has 
served as its secretary. 

Other large organizations in which 
this distinguished surgeon holds mem- 
bership are the Societe Internationale 
de Chirurgie, St. Louis Medical Li- 
brary Association, American Medical 
Associaiton, American Surgical Asso- 
ciation, and others. In the summer of 
1911 he attended the sessions of the 
first named in Europe. 

He has served with great credit as 
Professor of Surgery in Beaumont Hos- 
pital Medical College and the St. Louis 
University. He was chief surgeon of 
Alexian Brothers' Hospital for twenty- 
five years, and is now surgeon-in- 
charge of Josephine Hospital, as well 
as one of the surgeons of the Barnard 
Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hos- 
pital. Dr. Lutz is just home from sev- 
eral months' journey through Europe 
(1911), and whilst on his trip took 
occasion to study the methods in 
vogue in that country, particularly as 
to surgical work in hospitals. • 

It was in 1884 that Dr. Lutz was 
united in marriage with Miss May 
Silver, of Maryland. Dr. Lutz, since 
his connection with hospital surgery, 
has performed some of the most diffi- 
cult operations, the character of which 
attracted wide attention. 



GEORGE D. BARNARD. 



I dare say there is not a man, 
woman or child in this great thriving 
community of ours but who knows 
who this man is, what he does and 
where his business is situated. There 
is one modest structure in St. Louis, 
designed after the latest models and 
equipped as no other similar institu- 
tion in this country, that will stand 
for many years to come a monument 
to the ideas of George D. tsarnard, 
through whose lavish lioerality it was 
made possible — the Barnard Free Skin 
and Cancer Hospital. 

George D. Barnard stands today at 
the head of one of the largest printing 
establishments in the United States, 
whose business is not alone confined 
to St. Louis, Missouri, or the south- 
west, but which reaches out into the 
many states of the Union aijd takes in 
an area that is enormous, and it has 
come, day after day, month after 
month and year after year, due to a 
system of absolute straightforwardness 
and systematic business dealings. Mr. 
Barnard is one of the strongest advo- 



cates of the Rooseveltian theory of a 
"square deal." 

No man has been more closely identi- 
fied with the commercial and social 
development of St. Louis than has the 
subject of the author's'review. He is a 
progressive citizen. My contention 
could not be better illustrated than 
found in the plant over which Mr. 
Barnard rules. Under one roof, occu- 
pying a great many thousand of square 
feet, has this large printing outfit 
been assembled, until today everything 
known to the business is executed 
there. There is a distinct department 
necessary to the completion of every 
contract, with each department under 
the immediate supervision of a skilled 
head, and all this, in turn, under the 
personal direction of Mr. Barnard, as- 
sisted by his associates, all men tried 
and found fully capable. There is still 
another feature to which I wish to 
refer before passing to another para- 
graph. I am told by various employes 
of the Barnard Company, the men who 
belong in the ranks — not oflacials — that 



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perhaps fewer men are discharged at 
this plant than is the case in any other 
place in St. Louis, as evidenced by the 
large number of employes who have 
been many years in the employ of this 
company, that good discipline is main- 
tained, the men are loyal, as much 
work is accomplished. 

Men have violated rules which in 
many plants would have meant in- 
stant dismissal, but not here. Men 
are talked to, not abused; they are 
reasoned with, not ridiculed; they 
have explained to them the disad- 
vantage it works to them and to the 
firm for them to violate instructions, 
and before a discharge is issued, every- 
thing possible is done in an effort to 
allow the man to retrieve himself. 

Now, to return again to the great 
humanitarian institution of St. Louis 
that bears the name of Mr. Barnard. 
When the small band of St. Louis 
ladies inaugurated a plan to secure 
relief for many suffering from cancer 
and other skin, tissue and flesh af- 
flictions, they called on many. Their 
purpose was to create a fund with 
which to erect an institution to be 
used accordingly. Many times they 
called on monied men and laid their 
plans before them, meeting with var- 
ied success. The matter was finally 
taken up with George D. Barnard. He 
was quick to act. He gave his per- 
sonal assurance that he would do what 
he could in their behalf. The result 
was that his money was among the 
first to be used in the undertaking, 
which as a sort of experiment, was 
carried on for several years in an old 
building, partially equipped as best 
they could. Finally, after having sat- 
isfied themselves that such an insti- 
tution was needed in the city, they 
made another appeal to Mr. Barnard, 
notwithstanding he was already con- 
tributing right alongr and told him of 
their plans; that a hospital building 
was what was needed, and that to 
equip it would necessitate the expen- 
diture of thousands of dollars. 

]\Ir. Barnard did not hesitate, and 
today this structure stands as a monu- 
ment to his magnificent philanthropy. 
The amount paid for the ground upon 
which the hospital stands was $27,000, 
whilst the building and its equipment 
cost $135,697.69. This entire amount 
was paid by Mr. Barnard, in addition 
to $r),000 additional to the maintenance 
fund. 

The opening exercises were held on 
the afternoon of December 20, 1910, 
in the presence of a large number of 
people. Many addresses were made. 
One of the most beautiful features of 



the affair was when President Charles 
H. Huttig, of the Hospital, called on 
P. F. Pettibone, of Chicago, a life- 
long friend of Mr. Barnard, who had 
attended the event in honor of the 
occasion. Mr. Pettibone is engaged in 
a 'business similar to that of his school- 
day chum and had absolutely no idea 
of being called on to say anything. 
He was equal to the occasion, how- 
ever. When he arose, INIr. Barnard, 
who was seated on the rostrum, pre- 
sented the appearance of a school lad, 
with his first pair of red-top boots. 
His face was flushed and his happy 
countenance wreathed in smiles. Ad- 
vancing to the front of the crowded 
lecture room of the hospital, where 
the exercises were being held, Mr. 
Pettibone, smiling, said he could not 
understand why he had been called 
upon. "1 am no speaker, ladies and 
gentlemen, but I will do my very best, 
anyhow," said the publisher. It could 
be plainly seen that Mr. Pettibone was 
deeply effected, indicated by constant 
clearing of his throat. Then he re- 
lated how he had watched the progress 
made since the day his close friend 
had confided to him his project. He 
paid a high tribute to Mr. Barnard, 
when he said that afternoon, while 
showing much emotion, "my friends, 
let me say that whilst you may know 
his sterling character and qualifica- 
tions as well as I do, still I want to 
add that you may accept this mag- 
nificent gilt from him with every feel- 
ing of freedom from the thought that 
every dollar that has gone into it, is 
absolutely untainted, and has been 
honestly made." Continuing, after a 
moment's hesitating to regain his com- 
posure. Mr. Pettibone, through smiles 
said, "And today, dear friends, I am 
here to witness the marriage of munifi- 
cence and mercy, as a friend of the 
bridegroom, and as he rejoices, so 
do I." 

The institution is in the hands of 
one of the most skilled faculties in 
the United States, Dr. Washington E. 
Fischel, one of the foremost medical 
practitioners of the entire Southwest, 
being at the head of the medical staff, 
while over each and every department 
are men of their profession, skilled 
and learned in the daily battle against 
the ravages of disease. The Board of 
Directors of the hospital isi headed by 
Mr. C. H. Huttig, who is president, and 
gives a great deal of his time to its 
financial affairs. 

Mr. Barnard owns a beautiful home 
in St. Louis, in addition to Oak Lodge, 
located at Lake Geneva, Wis., one of 
the most delightful summer retreats in 
the country. 



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MATTHEW GIVEN REYNOLDS. 



Since 1878, Matthew G. Reynolds, a 
native Missourian, tias practiced his 
chosen prol'ession, his career as a rep- 
resentative of the legal fraterity ol' 
St Louis dating from 1886. In 1870 
young Reynolds became a naval cadet 
through official appointment, and four 
years later graduated from Annapolis 
with highest honors, winning the dis- 
tinction of being the most proficient 
executive official of the entire class. 

The year 1875 found the young 
officer aboard the frigate "Plymouth," 
from which he was later assigned to 
the "Tennessee" as midshipman. The 
year following he was made an ensign. 
Later, and until 1877, -Ensign Reynolds 
saw service aboard the frigate 
"Wyoming." After this he tendered 
his resignation and returned to private 
life. At hs home town. Bowling 
Green, tlie former young naval officer 
began the study of his profession in 
the law office of an old established 
firm, of attorneys, concluding his 
studies in the St. Louis Law School, 
and gaining admission to the bar in 
1878. 

Returning to Bowling Green, Judge 
Reynolds took up the active practice 
of his profession, remaining there 
about twelve months, after which he 
located in Louisiana, Mo., forming a 
partnership with the firm styled Fagg, 
Reynolds and Fagg. 

When this firm was dissolved, about 
a year after Judge Fagg left Louisiana 
for St. Louis, Judge Reynolds asso- 
ciated himself with Judge W^ H. 
Biggs, and, in 1886, located in St. 
Louis. 

After becoming a resident of St. 
Louis, Judge Reynolds was honored 
with appointment by President Harri- 
son as United States Attorney, serv- 
ing in the court of private land claims. 



Serving in this capacity. Judge Rey- 
nolds freed many thousands. of acres 
from individual claims and restored it 
to its rightful owner, the public. The 
litigation was among the most peculiar, 
perhaps, that has ever been presented 
for adjudication, but was carried 
through to a successful termination. 
He was retained under the administra- 
tions of Grover Cleveland, Benjamin 
Harrison, William McKinley and Theo- 
dore Roosevelt. When a number of 
these cases went up to the United 
States Supreme Court, Judge Reynolds 
was called on to assist in handling 
them, receiving special appointments 
under Attorneys General Knox, Olney, 
Harmon, Miller, Griggs, McKenna and 
Moody. 

In a number of receivership cases 
in St. Louis Judge Reynolds has acted 
with wise precision, tlie latest being 
one of the companies promoted by 
Gardner, and which has attracted 
almost national attention, so intricate 
are its affairs and so far reaching. In 
1911 Judge Reynolds was appointed 
receiver by the Federal Court for the 
Lewis properties, involving millions of 
dollars. To administer this trust 
necessitated the giving of an 
enormous bond, but Judge Reynolds 
did that within a short while after 
being notified of the appointment. He 
entered upon the great volume of 
work connected with this case, and 
will carry it through as successfully 
as he has everything else with which 
he has had anything to do. 

Judge Reynolds, in 1880, was mar- 
ried to ]\Iiss ]\Iamie Fagg, whose dis- 
tinguished father, at one time, occu- 
pied the supreme bench of the State of 
Missouri. Of the union there are eight 
children. Misses Florence, Lucy, Alice, 
Mary and Stephen A., M. G. Jr., Rob- 
ert P., and John. 



CHARLES PHILIP JOHNSON. 



An Illinoisan by birth, a Missourian 
by choice, Hon Charles Philip John- 
son was born at Lebanon (111.) Janu- 
ary 18, 1836, since which time he has 
risen to national eminence, and today 
he is known, as he has been for some 
years, as one of the most successful 
lawyers in the United States. 

Governor Johnson, during his early 
age, attended the common schools of 
his native state, and after, for a time, 
McKendree College, which institution 
conferred upon him the degree of 
Doctor of Laws. In his youthful days 



Mr. Johnson decided to equip himself 
with the knowledge of some trade, 
and the result was he learned the 
printers' art, afterward becoming 
editor of a weekly publication, there- 
by getting his first insight into mat- 
ters political. 

When the young man reached the 
•age of nineteen he came to St. Louis 
and begun the reading of law and pre- 
paring for admittance to the bar, and 
it was about 1857 that he entered the 
general practice. The love for jour- 
nalism, however, was soon rekindled 



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in the heart of the attorney, and a 
couple of years after his admittance 
to the bar he established, in connec- 
tion with James Peckham, of this 
city, the "Evening Bulletin." Fol- 
lowing this up, during the year of 1864 
he associated himself with the then 
"Daily Press," having in the meantime 
disposed of his interests in the 
Bulletin. It may be of interest to 
many to know that the Press after- 
wards became the "St. Louis Daily 
Times." 

It was, I believe, in 18G5, after the 
close of the civil war, that Governor 
Johnson secured possession of a pub- 
lication known as the "St. Louis 
Daily Evening Union." This title the 
young man did not like, and changed 
it to the "St. Louis Dispatch," which 
proved the foundation for the "St. 
Louis Post-Dispatch." 

In 1859, while editor of the "Even- 
ing Bulletin," Governor Johnson was 
elected City Attorney of St. Louis. The 
question of slavery was being agitated 
in all parts of the country, and, in 
company with Frank P. Blair, Gov- 
ernor Johnson lined up his forces and 
made heroic resistance to a continua- 
tion of slavery and urged its cessa- 
tion. Shortly the civil war came on, 
and he naturally took sides against 
the North. With the Missouri In- 
fantry, Third regiment, as a lieuten- 
ant, Johnson went to the front. It 
was during this period that Governor 
Johnson exhibited unusual activity, 
with the result that he assisted to 
a very great extent in the complete 
organization of what was known as 
the Eighth Missouri Volunteer In- 
fantry, one of the most conspicuous 
in the war, and one that won fame. 
It was the sub.iect of the author's re- 
view who paid a personal visit to 
President Abraham Lincoln and ten- 
dered him the services of this right- 
ing aggregation of men. He was sub- 
sequently appointed major of the regi- 
ment. 

During the progress of the war, tue 
Republican party, for sorr.o reason, ue- 
clined' to support General Frank P. 
Blair for Congress, and the honor was 
tendered Governor Johnson. Blair 
was a great friend of Johnson's, and 
the latter declined to accept the 
proffer. In the election which fol- 
lowed, Governor Johnson was elected 
to the Missouri Legislature, and he 
had been in the house but a short 
time before he was recognized as the 
leader. 

I believe it was about 186C that Gov- 
ernor Johnson was appointed Circuit 
Attorney for not only the city, but also 



St. Louis county, the offices being 
filled tlirough selection by Governor 
Fletcher. The year following, so effi- 
ciently had he served, that he was 
elected to the office, and for the re- 
maining six years served with the 
greatest distinction held by any man 
who has since occupied the position. 

It must be said to the credit of Gov- 
ernor Johnson that he was directly in- 
strumental in the selection of Horace 
Greeley as the choice of the first lib- 
eral Republican movement for the 
presidency. A number of speeches 
were made by Governor Johnson. That 
was in 1872, and the year in which 
Silas Woodson was a candidate for 
chief executive of Missouri, with Gov- 
ernor Johnson as his running mate. 
The united ticket easily carried the 
state. It was while serving as presi- 
dent of the Missouri state senate that 
he deliverd that memorable address, 
the like of which has never since been 
hoLrd in the legislative halls of any 
commonwealth, in the course of which 
he urged with all the forceful oratory 
at his command, backed by statistics 
at his fingers' tips, the repeal of what 
was known as the charter grant, 
under which had been passed in his 
home city the social evil law. 

Coming down to present day happen- 
ings, although retired from public 
office, tlie former lieutenant-govenor 
of Missouri is still quite active in 
politics, whilst his opinions carry as 
much weght as ever along these lines. 
Even after leaving the lieutenant-gov- 
ernorship, the people would not con- 
sent to allow him to remain in private 
life, and in 1880 I again find him 
back in the legislature. Governor 
Johnson, when his friends called on 
him to gain his permission to run him 
for the office was urged to accept 
under but one condition — the break- 
ing up of one of the most powerful 
rings of professional gamblers in St. 
Louis that the city has ever known. 
Governor Johnson announced in ad- 
vance of his election that the gamblers 
and he could not remain in St. Louis; 
that either they or he would have to 
fold tent and decamp, and the result 
was he was fought all the way through 
the campaign, while tens of thousands 
of dollars was used to encompass his 
defeat. He secured the passage of 
what is today known as the "John- 
son Gambling Law." 

It is my conscientious opinion, given 
only after having made close compari- 
sons of the many strong men of Mis- 
souri, those who have attained fame 
and wealth, that Charles Philip John- 
son is to be truly recognized as one 



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of the most illustrious sons of the 
great commonwealth. Governor John- 
son has been thrice wedded. His first 
wife was Miss Estelle Parker, whom 
he married just at the outbreak of the 
civil war in 1861. There were four 
children of this union, one of whom, 
together with the mother, is dead. 



He was afterwards wedded to Miss 
Louise Stevens, and they had three 
children, two of w^om are living. 
About three years ago the governor 
was married to Mrs. Annie Andre of 
St. Genevieve, a woman of much cul- 
ture and learning. 



JOHN H. GUNDLACH. 



Another prominent business man 
who has devoted a great deal of bis 
time to the advancement of St. Louis, 
is John H. Gundlach, one of the best 
known realty men in the southwest. 

Mr. Gundlach is a native Missourian 
and was born in 1861. He attended 
the public schools, as well as several 
private institutions, graduating with 
high class honors. When quite a young 
man, after completing his studies, he 
struck out in the world for himself, 
securing employment with a firm of 
photographers, with whom he re- 
mained for about three years. After-, 
wards young Gundlach secured a po- 
sition with the Mechanics Planing 
Mill company. He continued in the 
service of that corporation for a little 
more than a year, after which he con- 
nected himself with the Hunzinger 
Tobacco company, remaining with 
that conapany until 1883. From the 
latter year until the latter part of 
the year following, Mr. Gundlach was 
a bookkeeper for A. B. Ewing, then 
commissioner of supplies. In 1885 
young Gundlach secured employment 
with the Wabash Railroad company. 
In 1892 the John H. Gundlach com- 
pany was established and real estate 
dealings begun. 

Mr. Gundlach for a number of years 
had his eyes on the development of 
north end residence property. At that 
time very little attention was being 
given property in that section of the 
city by any one, and he realized that 
if it was opened up, properly improved 
and the attention of the buying public 
called to it in the proper manner, the 
returns would be remunerative. Hence 
it was the John H. Gundlach company 
that set about to take hold of this 
large proposition, with the result that 
today the unprecedented growth of 



north St. Louis is to the credit of Mr. 
Gundlach. 

In addition to this, i\Ir. Gundlach 
took up other realty propositions, and 
was greatly interested in the splendid 
results secured by the Plymouth In- 
vestment company, the Union Realty 
and Investment company, O'Fallon 
Park Realty and Investment company. 
Of all these he has served as secretary 
and treasurer. He has also held the 
vice presidency of the St. Louis Real 
Estate Exchange, with credit to him- 
self and associates. He has served 
the North St. Louis Business Men's 
Association, as well as the North St. 
Louis Citizens' Association, as presi- 
dent. ' 

No man in the city is a stronger 
advocate of civic advancement than 
he, and in all movements of a civic 
character, is always at the front, at 
one time being vice president of the 
Civic League. 

In the Republican party Mr. Gund- 
lach is recognized as a leader. He 
places the greater part of his stress 
upon the man — much more so than 
the party, and believes the independ- 
ent movement has a future in store 
for it. 

John H. Gundlach's father, Peter 
Gundlach, was one of the best known 
shoe merchants in Missouri, and was 
for many years a member of the St. 
Louis city council. It was, there- 
fore, but natural that the son follow 
in the paternal footsteps. Frequently 
Mayor Kriesmann has been absent 
from the city, and Mr. Gundlach has 
always served, by virtue of his office 
as president of the council. He has 
many times demonstrated keen exe- 
cutive ability and discharged the 
duties of the office with much' credit 
to himself. 



ANDREW J. O'REILLY. 



A Missourian by birth, it is my 
conscientious belief that no man in 
the various professions has made 
greater headway than the subject of 
the author's review, Andrew J. 



O'Reilly, who for many years was 
closely associated with the municipal 
government of St. Louis, and who to- 
day is looked upon as one of the 
West's greatest consulting engineers. 



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INIr. O'Reilly was born in Montgom- 
ery County, Mo., in 1863, and acquired 
his early education in the public insti- 
tutions of this city and the Christian 
Brothers College. Alter completing 
his studies in St. Louis, Mr. O'Reilly, 
desirous of still further adding to his 
knowledge, went to Cambridge and 
West Newton, Mass., where he pursued 
his studies further. 

On his return to St. Louis, and still 
not quite satisfied, he entered Smith's 
Academy, from which he graduated 
with honors in 1881. Following this, 
young O'Reilly entered Washington 
University. 

In 1882 he decided to put away his 
studies until he could prepare himself 
for a continuation of study of the 
engineering profession, and secured 
employment with one of the telephone 
companies, afterwards going with the 
fire and police telegraph department as 
an electrician. Here he remained un- 
til 1SS4, when he once more returned 
to Washington University, having earn- 
ed ample money with which to pay in 
part his schooling. It was about three 
years later that he graduated and had 
conferred upon him the degree of 
Bachelor of Engineering. His studies 
covered not electrical engineering 
alone, but mechanical as well, hence 
when he engaged in the work, after 
leaving his classes he was as well 
equipped as a young man could be. 

Shortly after leaving school he se- 
cured ready employment and there 
has never been a time when he was 
without steady and lucrative employ- 
ment, serving principally the large 
corporations in an expert capacity. In 
1889, Engineer O'Reilly was offered 
and accepted a position with the Muni- 
cipal Electric Light and Power com- 
pany. The immense plant of that 
company was installed by Mr. O'Reilly 
and all details mapped out for light- 
ing St. Louis' highways and byways. 
Shortly afterwards he was selected 
as supervisor of city lighting, and re- 
mained in that office for more than 
thirteen years. In 1903 l\Ir. O'Reilly 
was appointed engineer in charge of 
the St. Louis Fire Prevention bureau. 



The principal undertaking of this bu- 
reau was the protection of the Louisi- 
ana Purchase Exposition from fire, 
and this work came directly under the 
supervision of Mr. O'Reilly, who, two 
years following, was named as head of 
the Board of Public Improvements. 
Many of the public buildings were 
erected under his supervision. His 
magnificient qualifications as an en- 
gineer stood him in excellent stead, 
and I am satisfied that during his ad- 
ministration as the president of this 
important board he saved taxpayers 
thousands of dollars. 

In engineering circles no man stands 
higher. He is considered an advanced 
authority, and his advice is almost 
constantly sought by various corpora- 
tions and municipalities. He holds 
active membership in many of the 
large professional organizations pe- 
culiar to his profession, in addition to 
a number of the leading business and 
social organizations of St. Louis. 

Among these are the American In- 
• stitute of Electrical Engineers, St. 
Louis Engineers' Club, St. Louis Acad- 
emy of Science, American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, and 
others equally as prominent. He be- 
longs to the Business Men's League, 
Missouri Athletic Club, and is a mem- 
ber of the Masons and the Elks. 

Mr. O'Reilly's home is one of the 
most attractive in St. Louis, hTs li- 
brary being considered the most com- 
plete of its kind in the United States, 
having been so pronounced time and 
time again by the most skilled men in 
his profession. 

In 1883 Mr. O'Reilly was united in 
matrimony with Miss Mary Howard, 
a native of Massachusetts. The couple 
have had seven children. Mr. O'Reilly 
is a most approachable man, and not- 
withstanding the peculiar character- 
istics of most men who have gained 
great reputations, ]\Ir. O'Reilly is 
always ready and willing to assist the 
man lower down. In this way he has 
endeared many struggling young en- 
gineers to him, and no man in the 
southwest today has a more loyal fol- 
lowing. I 



COLIN M. SELPH. 



Colin M. Selph, known as a valued 
member of the St. Louis bar, is also 
recognized as a forceful factor in 
Democratic circles. The superb man- 
agement of Senator Reed's campaign, 
proves his capability for organization 
and evidences his loyalty to his 



friends. He is suave, clever, and re- 
sourceful; always aggressive, ever 
fighting, striving, never giving up, and 
as Senator Collins said in describing 
Selph,' "the harder he falls, the higher 
he bounces, and he lands on his feet 
every time." 



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Mr. Selph's work as a citizen has 
displayed efforts and energy tliat liave 
accomplished far reaching and bene- 
ficial results lor the civic and public 
welfare of St. Louis. Tangible evi- 
dence of his great interest in the cty 
was manifested in his efforts to secure 
legislation lor the passage of a bill 
for a free bridge across the Mississippi 
river. 

Mr. Selph was born in Richmond, 
Va., July 16, 1864, is a son of Major 
C. M. Rae Selph, U. C. V., and Eliza-, 
beth (Dimitryj Selph. Major Selph, 
his father, well known as a lawyer, 
is a Confederate veteran and was a 
member of the staff of General Tay- 
lor. His mother was a daughter of 
Alexander Dimitry, who was professor 
of languages and a member of the 
faculty of Georgetown College, 1858 
to 1860, and thereafter U. S. minister 
to Guatemala and Nicaraugua. Later 
Professor Dimitry established the first 
public school system in Louisiana, his 
native state. Mr. Selph of this review 
is a lienal descendant in the seventh 
generation of Gen. John Smith of 
Virginia, and a great-grandson of 
Robert Mills of the Treasury Depart- 
ment and design.er of the famous 
Washington monument. 

]\Ir. Selph left school at the age of 
sixteen. He graduated from Lusher's 
Academy and got the fundamentals of 
law in his father's office and at Tulane 
University, but in the meantime Selph 
was earning his own way, first in a 
foundry, then in a commercial es- 
tablishment. His residency, in St. 
Louis dates from 1886, in which year 
he accepted a position as clerk in the 
employ of Philip Roeder, the book- 
seller. Afterwards he entered the em- 
ploy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
and was there for many years. For 
one year he was manager of the 
Kansas City Times. He finished his 
experiences in journalism as editor 
and publisher of the World's Fair 
Bulletin, the official publication of the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In 
1903 Selph was elected to the legisla- 
ture, and served until 1905. While 
there he became an aggressive factor 
and at once commanded attention and 
respect from his colleagues. He was 
bitterly opposed because of his advo- 
cacy of former Governor Wm. J. Stone 
for U. S. senator, but fearlessly placed 
Stone in nomination and assisted in 
electing him. 

Returning to St. Louis from 
Jefferson City, where he was admitted 
to the practice of law, he became a 
member of the Joint Free Bridge 
Committee, and, with Otto F. Karbe 
and Benjamin Westhus, prepared the 



ordinances that afterwards were 
passed by the municipal assembly, 
giving St. Louis a free bridge, a new 
municipal court building and the right 
to build beautiful boulevards and 
parks. 

Selph has given no better proof of 
his ardo rand enthusiastic devotion to 
the welfare of his city and her people 
than in his very successful conduct of 
the negotiations of the Olive Street 
Bank failure, whereby his great execu- 
tive ability and his knowledge of the 
law was dmonstrated by virtue of the . 
payment finally to every depositor of 
the Olive Street bank their deposits in 
full, through a merger with the Grand 
Avenue bank. John E. Swanger, at 
that time secretary of state of Mis- 
souri, said: "Had not Mr. Selph, as 
president of the Olive Street Bank De- 
positers' Association, aggressively pur- 
sued his policy and fixed demand of 
'Dollar for dollar for Depositors at 
all costs, no matter what happens,' 
a receiver would necessarily have 
been appointed by the courts and the 
depositors would have lost great sums 
of money. 

Soon after Mr. Selph was nominated 
by the Democracy of the Twelfth dis- 
trict for congress, but was defeated by 
a small plurality, while the balance of 
of the ticket was defeated by thou- 
sands of votes. He gives unfaltering 
allegiance to the Democracy, believ- 
ing that^its principles will best con- 
serve the public welfare, and he is 
prominent in its ranks, though often 
at war with the committees and the 
"bosses;" he has been the leading 
factor in the St. Louis Democratic 
club, an aggressive organization for 
several years. 

He is also a member of the Million 
Population club, one of the foremost 
of the civic associations of St. Louis. 
He has served on its executive com- 
mittee and accomplished much for the 
public welfare as the chairman of the 
parks and public improvements com- 
mittee. Laterly he was appointed by 
Mayor Kreismann a member of the 
City Plan Commission, which is 
charged with the responsibility of 
making St. Louis "a city beautiful." 

In 1910 Mr. Selph astonished the 
Democracy of St. Louis by announcing 
that he would manage the senatorial 
campaign of his friend, James B. 
Reed, of Kansas City. Once having 
determined on this course, the many 
influences brought to bear upon Selph 
could not swerve him. Both he and 
Senator Reed were at once ostracised 
by the "committee," but Selph, un- 
daunted and undismayed, hired halls 
and had Reed speaking at five or six 



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different places every night during the 
closing days of the campaign in St. 
Louis to crowded nouses. Many of 
those who thought they knew, said 
that Selph's political sagacity was at 
fault, but the tremendous vote that 
Senator Reed received in St. Louis and 
adjoining counties on election day was 
proof positive that this unusual man 



who dared antagonize "the powers'' 
was wiser than his critics. 

Mr. Selph is married and has one 
son, Colin III. Mrs. Selph was former- 
ly Miss Nancy Helen Witback, daught- 
er of Col. John Witback, of St. Louis 
County. Mr. Selph is very proud of 
his wife and his family, and take.s 
great pride in his home. 



SENATOR JAMES A. REED. 



James A. Reed, junior United States 
senator, representing Missouri, is an 
American first, his other attributes 
follow in sequence, gentleman, states- 
man and Democrat. His is that mili- 
tant yet patriotic spirit that has been 
the fundamental inspiration of the 
American nation. He is a man of 
marked ability and high integrity. He 
is a dominant factor for trur reform 
in public affairs. His ceaseless 
activity has produced profitable re- 
sults for the people; his public acts 
testify to their wisdom and justifica- 
tion. Of an inherent fearless nature, 
he never hesitates to cross lances with 
a foe. He possesses a wonderful 
power of oratory surcharged with 
magnetic vitality. 

Senator Reed is a progressive Demo- 
ci-at in every sense. He believes that 
progress must be followed with more 
progress, and yet he is religiously con- 
secrated to the time-honored principles 
of Jeffersonian Democracy, which he 
declares is the underlying stone of 
stable and equal government. This 
great state has in times past been 
represented in the United States sen- 
ate by many superior minds, great 
statesmen and favorie sons. Mr. Reed 
has the experience, knowledge, capa- 
city, integrity and ability, all of which 
attributes, with an unsullied reputa- 
tion for party loyalty, justifies the con- 
fidence Missouri's legion has in Reed, 
gives this commonwealth another mili- 
tant captain to achieve and accom- 
plish much for the people of this state. 

Senator Reed is a typical Missourian. 
All Missourians love a fighter and a 
gentleman. The record of achieve- 
ment during the past fifteen years of 
his life is one filled with battles against 
vice and dishonesty, warfare against 
thievery in office and corruption in 
high places by public corporations and 
replete with victories — ^strenuous vic- 
tories that entitle him to his place in 
the fore of Missouri public men. Mr. 
Reed came to Missouri twenty-two 
years ago. He said he "wanted to live 
in a state where a Democratic vote 
counted." In every campaign since 



that time, be it municipal, state or 
national, his voice has been heard. 

In 1896 he made more than 100 
speeches for Bryan and Democracy, 
and in 1900 did the same thing over 
again. In 1904 he took the stump 
for Parker, albeit he had personally 
preferred another Democrat for the 
presidential nominee. From the tap 
of the drum to the counting of the 
votes he is always in the field. 

At three we find the infant Reed 
a resident of Lynn county, Iowa. The 
call of the soil, inherent in the Reed 
blood, caused the transition from Ohio 
to Iowa. Five years later came the 
death of the father.- On account of his 
prolonged illness, and a strange dis- 
ease that carried away nearly all his 
sheep, the elder Reed left his widow 
and children an incumbered estate. 
It became a question of a hard, grind- 
ing labor to save t>.e property. The 
boy of eight did his part. In tbe 
fields, driving a drag, reaper, sowing 
seed, he ably assisted his mother in 
her struggle. Three months of school 
in the winter and studious application 
at night laid the basis for future edu- 
cation. At nineteen years of age, 
while yet a high school student, he 
borrowed money to engage in cattle 
buying. The returns netted a sum 
sufficient to cause the last existing 
debt against the Reed estate to be re- 
moved. Upon the old homestead, a 
part of which has been swallowed by 
the city of Cedar Rapids, lives the 
aged mother with a son and daughter. 
Reed is a frequent visitor to his 
former home and old mother. 

Reed first won his title of a true 
reformer back in 1888. New to Kansas 
City, he protested against mob 
caucuses for the* nomination of candi- 
dates for office, for the reason that 
such meetings were dominated by the 
committee and resulted in the nomina- 
tion of a "slate." His name became a 
word with which to conjure. So 
strong were the words of Reed that 
public clamor forced the unwilling 
leaders to give him an opportunity to 
be heard. The close of that campaign 



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found him the most sought-after public 
speaker in Kansas City. Prom that 
day to this he has been in demand 
whenever and wherever strong, honest 
convincing language is needed. Be- 
ginning locally, his demand has spread 
to state, and from state to nation. 

A newspaper man asked Reed, soon 
after his election to the Senate: "Sen- 
ator, what policies will you advocate?" 
Quick as a flash came the reply: 
"Read the Democratic platform and 
you will have the answer." 

I have heard him declare that "if 
each man w'ere to insist upon a po- 
litical platform exactly conformitory 
to his personal belief, there would be 
as many political parties as there are 
men. That the question every man 
must answer is not, is my parcy right 
in all things, but is it-s main line of 
advance in the direction most 'bene- 
ficial to the country?" 

Accordingly, Reed has never pro- 
claimed himself wiser than his party. 
When the Democracy of the nation has 
written a platform he has been its 
advocate and champion. He has never 
bolted, has never been a disrupter, 
has never scratched a Democratic 
ticket. Party platforms have been to 
him political creeds, and he has ever 
fought with bouyant enthusiasm for 
th principles in which he believed the 
welfare of the common people were 
embraced. It is not, therefore, strange 
that we find him, before he had at- 
tained his majority, making Demo- 
cratic speeches in rock-ribbed Re- 
publican Iowa, without the hope or 
prospect of party victory. Nor is it 
surprising that the year he was 
twenty-one he was made chairman of 
the Democratic committee of Lynn 
county, Iowa, and that, by shrewd 
management and tireless labor the 
wholly unexpected feat of a Demo- 
cratic victory was achieved. 

In Kansas City and Jackson county 
he is the leader of his party. Popular 
with the masses, he draws tremendous 
crowds and wins their votes by superb 
logic and matchless oratory. I have 
known him to make as many as six 
speeches in a single night in Kansas 
City, each in a different part of the 
city, and he was met by crowded 
houses at them all. In St. Louis he 
did the same thing and won the 
masses. 



Senator Reed is an able and eminent 
lawyer and is the senior member of 
the law firm of Reed, Atwood, Masten, 
Yates and Harvey, of Kansas City. 

In 1904 he was a candidate for 
governor. After some weeks of cam- 
paigning he saw the trend was to- 
ward his opponent, Joseph W. Folk, 
and immediately announced his with- 
drawal from the race. Before publicly 
doing so he privately released all dele- 
gations instructed for him. That race 
marks the one and only defeat Reed 
has ever experienced. His official 
record includes one term as county 
counselor of Jackson county, of which 
Kansas City is the principal city; two 
terms as prosecuting attorney, and 
two terms as mayor of Kansas City, 
and he is now entering upon his first 
term as United tSates senator. 

When Democracy is at stake Reed 
is never in the shade. There is nothing 
half-hearted about his allegiance. He 
is ready, always ready. Such a man, 
ever fighting, and fighting hard for 
the cause he loves, may safely be 
entrusted with the welfare of his state 
in national office. 

There is an old saying that the 
man who bears the brunt of the battle 
in the heat of the day should not be 
set aside, and the Missouri Democracy 
sent him to the senate by an over- 
whelming majority over his opponents. 
James A. Reed is a true soldier of 
Democracy. He is a veteran of count- 
less battles and many victories. He 
achieved his reward at the hands of 
Missouri's unterrified and progressive 
Democracy because they believed in 
him and they trust him. The people 
of this great state gave him the grati- 
tude he is entitled to by his acts. 
None can say that he will not fulfil 
the expectations of his constiuency. 
Already he has commanded attention 
upon the floor of the senate, his col- 
leagues respect him, his opponents 
fear him. The whole nation knows 
now that Missouri's junior United 
States Senator is a man of brains, 
fearless, honest and capable, and as 
time progresses James A. Reed will 
take his place among the great states- 
men of these United tSates, he cannot 
fail, because fundamentally he has for 
his doctrine, equal rights for all, 
special privileges to none. 



SAMUEL BROADDUS JEFFEIES. 



A Missourian by birth, a man who 
stands high in his profession, skilled 
in the handling of cases, and an able 



orator, aptly describes the subject of 
my review, Samuel B. Jeffries, one of 
the best known lawyers in the state. 



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Mr. Jeffries was born in Lewis 
county (Mo.) in 1869 and obtained 
his early education in the schools of 
his community, after which he entered 
and graduated from La Grange Col- 
lege. This was in 1890, and at the 
same time he had conferred upon 
him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 

In October, 1890, Mr. Jeffries came 
to St. Louis and entered the law de- 
partment of Washington University. 
He remained there about a year, after 
which he continued the study and 
reading of law under Judge Anderson, 
of Canton, Mo., one of the most bril- 
liant jurists the state has ever pro- 
duced. 

Young Jeffries was a very close 
student. He was anxious to gain ad- 
mission to the bar, but he realized 
there was only one way open to him, 
aud that was to undergo a very rigid 
examination, and the only manner in 
which he could equip himself was by 
close study and reading. 

In 1892 he passed this examination 
with a magnificent percentage to his 
credit and was readily admitted. He 
immediately took up the practice of 
his profession at La Grange and at 
Canton, and continued there for four 
years, lirst as a member of the law 
firm of Anderson and Jeffries and 
later alone. Elected prosecuting at- 
torney of Lewis County in 1904, re- 
elected 1906, served eleven days of 
second term and resigned to accept 
the position of assistant attorney gen- 
eral of Missouri, where he served eight 
years, after which he came to St. Louis. 

Prior to this, however, he served 
Lewis County as prosecuting attorney 
for one full term and was re-elected 
for a second term, but before its ex- 
piration he voluntarily resigned, pre- 
ferring to confine his time to private 



practice. As prosecuting attorney of 
Lewis County he appeared in certain 
litigation that required the most skill- 
ed care. Having splendid conception 
of the law, the young prosecutor ap- 
plied himself and came out victorious. 

After locating here Mr. Jeffries be- 
came associated, as a member of the 
well known legal firm of Harlan, 
Jeffries and Wagner, which, after 
several months, was dissolved. Mr. 
Jeffries is today senior partner in the 
firm of Jeffries and Corum. 

During his general practice in St. 
Louis, Mr. Jeffries has appeared either 
as counsel for plaintiff or defendant, 
in a number of cases that have at- 
tracted wide attention, and has repre- 
sented many of the largest corpora- 
tions in the southwest with marked 
success. 

In argument before court and jury 
he invariably leaves an impression 
of the merits of his client's contention. 
He is a forceful speaker, and deals 
intelligently and graphically with the 
intricacies and technicalities of law 
wherever and whenever involved, in- 
dicative of unusual skill and excep- 
tional ability. 

In addition to his immense practice, 
Mr. Jeffries retains interests in a 
number of other enterprises in St. 
Louis and is a director in several 
large and well known institutions. 

It was in 1897 that Mr. Jeffries 
was wedded to Miss Lutie Ball, a 
native of Lewis county (Mo.), a 
highly accomplished and talented 
young woman. He holds active mem- 
bership in a number of the leading 
social, business and professional or- 
ganizations of the city, county and 
state, and in the legal profession, no 
man stands higher. 



CHARLES PORTER JOHNSON. 



C. Porter Johnson was born near 
Danville, 111., on a farm, August 15, 
1866. After the ordinary schooling 
the young man entered Lee's Prepara- 
tory Academy, where he remained 
until June, 1884, when he left to take 
up the study of law in the law depart- 
ment of the Northwestern University. 
He completed his studies there in 
1888, after which he went to Chicago 
and be'came junior member of the 
legal firm of Willett and Johnson. 
For ten years this connection con- 
tinued, during which time the subject 
of the author's review attained a repu- 
tation that many older men, more ex- 



perienced in the practice of law, 
envied. 

Finally, in 1891, l\Ir. Johnson was 
sent to the Illinois state senate from 
the second senatorial district. In 
1898 he was a candidate against 
United States Senator Lorimer for 
congress, but was defeated after one 
of the hardest fought political cam- 
paigns Illinois has ever witnessed, 
Johnson holding his own throughout, 
and was only defeated by chicanery, 
according to many of the best known 
residents of Chicago. 

Mr. Johnson again resumed his law 
practice in Chicago, and continued 



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until his health failed in 1901. The 
several strenuous campaigns through 
which he had gone, the hundreds of 
speeches made, in addition to his 
private law practice, large in itself, 
proved more than his constitution 
could stand, and he immediately hied 
to a ranch in southern Oklahoma, 
where he remained until 1906, after- 
wards going to Oklahoma City to re- 
side. He remained there until about 
five years ago, when he decided to 
move to St. Louis, and upon his ar- 
rival again took up the practice of 
his profession. The extent of the 
large practice which he has- secured 
during the period of his residence in 
this city is clearly indicative of his 
ability as a lawyer. 

As an orator he has few equals in 
the southwest, a reputation meritor- 
iously gained in Illinois, and which 
has closely followed him wherever he 
has gone. At the great banquet 
tendered President William McKinley 
in Buffalo in 1898 by the Grand Army 
of the Republic, the response to the 
toast proposed was made by Mr. John- 
son. It was, at the time, freely con- 
ceded to be one of the most masterly 
addresses ever delivered before a 
similar gathering — in fact of such 
moment as to occasion especial com- 
ment from the president. In the year 
of the death of Robert G. Ingersoll, 
Mr. Johnson was requested by the 
committee that conducted the 
memorial services to deliver the prin- 
cipal address of the occasion, which 
he did. That was in Chicago. 

Again, at the especial request of 
the Illinois state senate, Mr. Johnsoii 
appeared before that body and * de- 
livered an oration on the life of James 
G. Blaine. This address w^as much 
commented upon and attracted world- 
wide attention. 

During the campaign of Mayor 
Frederick H. Kriesmann, one of the 
leaders was Mr. Johnson. During the 



hottest part of the fight, when ad- 
dresses were being made by candi- 
dates and their supporters in various 
parts of the city, Mr. Johnson hit back, 
right and left. As many as ten and 
filteen speeches he made in a day or 
night, and much oi the success of the 
present mayor, in being elected to 
office is attributed to Mr. Johnson by 
members of both parties. 

On the occasion of the memorial ex- 
ercises of the Benevolent and Pro- 
tective Order , of Elks, held at St. 
Joseph, Mo., the principal address was 
delivered by Mr. Johnson. The ora- 
tion was reproduced by almost every 
newspaper in tbat county, several of 
which referred to it editorially as an 
effort ranking with the best, a 
magnificent compliment, indeed, to Mr. 
Johnson. 

One of the most beautiful tributes 
paid by one brother to another, I 
find in the pathetic prose poem, de- 
livered by Mr. Johnson over his 
brother's grave in 1888, near Danville. 
This, I believe, appears in Mr. John- 
son's own book, a volume containing 
many of his best addresses, and pub- 
lished by the Regan Publishing com- 
pany, of Chicago, 111. 

In August, 1898, Mr. Johnson was 
wedded to Miss Derelle West, 
daughter of Captain Pleasant W^est, 
of Georgetown, 111., one of the most 
talented, beautiful and accomplished 
young women of that section of the 
state. The couple have one child, a 
son, West, now in his ninth year. Mrs. 
Johnson is a sister of Hon. Roy O. 
West, chairman of the State Central 
Republican Committee of Illinois, and 
a leading attorney of that section. 

Few men, especially at the age of 
Charles Porter Johnson, have met with 
such progress, have achieved such 
success and attained such a reputa- 
tion, and I nave taken pleasure in 
preparing my review of the splendid 
record he has made. 



GEORGE EDWARD MIX 



Though a comparatively young man, 
the subject of the author's review, 
George E. Mix, has made rapid head- 
way in the practice of law, and today 
enjoys a practice that is remunerative 
to a greater degree than that of some 
who have had more years of actual 
practical experience. 

George E. Mix, whose law^ offices 
are situated in the Third National 
Bank building, is a graduate of Yale, 
he acquitting himself with highest hon- 
ors, since which time, as I have al- 



ready stated, he has met with signal 
success. He was born in Waterville, 
Oneida County, New York, in 1876, 
and possessed his legal diploma in 
1904. During the time Mr. Mix was 
in college he w^as repeatedly selected 
for the presidency of the Yale-Kent 
Debating Club, and held the record 
for championship Indian club swinging 
)f that great institution, proving him- 
oelf winner in three different intercol- 
legiate meets. He was also chairman 
of the Executive Committee of the 



Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association. 
In debates, entered into with the best 
students of Yale, Mr. Mix invariably 
held his own, and soon established 
for himself the reputation of being the 
premier debater of the college. It was 
no doubt due to his magnicent ability 
along these lines that he was kept at 
the head of the debating society. 

After completing his course of stud- 
ies in law Mr. Mix went to New York 
City and there opened his first oflice 
for the pursuance of his chosen pro- 
fession. That was in July of that 
year. " Apparently Mr. ]\Iix was not 
destined to reside in New York for 
any great period of time, for in Feb- 
ruary of the following year (1905), he 
came to St. Louis, as the legal repre- 
sentative of the Chicago House Wreck- 
ing Company. This was the large cor- 
poration that purchased all that was 
left of the liOuisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition, St. Louis World's Fair, and 
while its employes were engaged in 
tearing down the various buildings and 
concessions, many were injured, the 
total running between twenty-five hun- 
dred and three thousand men. The 
result of the work of wrecking the 
fair was many heavy law-suits for 
these injuries, and it was to look after 
the interests of the Chicago company 
that Mr. Mix was detailed to defend 
his client's interests as each case was 
called. 

Arriving in St. Louis, Mr. Mix "wad- 
ed right in," so to speak, and suc- 
ceeded in settling many of the cases 
without even being tried, while in 
numerous others so able did he protect 
in cross-examination and argument, 
the company's interests, that only 
small judgments were obtained, while 
as many more he won outright. He 
was engaged in this work until Janu- 
ary, of 1907, when it was practically 
all cleaned up. During the two years 
he had charge of this matter his argu- 
ments won for him many favorable 
comments, and so impressed had Mr. 
Mix become with the city that he de- 
clined to return to New York City 



and entered the general practice of 
law in St. Louis, since which time he 
has continued his profession here. 

According to the official records of 
the local courts, Mr. Mix has ap- 
peared as counsel in about fifteen 
criminal cases, winning twelve of 
them. His civil practice, however, is 
very large, and steadily increasing, 
year after year. 

Mr. Mix, during the past twelve 
months, nas appeared in a number of 
the most intricate proceedings that 
have come before the bar for some 
time, and his success in behalf of 
plaintiff or defendant, as the case 
might have been, is regarded as re- 
markable. In line of argument, or 
as termed in legal parlance, when 
".Mix gets into action," he gets right 
up on the jury and after making a 
point of law, he drives it home, so to 
speak; aien hesitates to determine, 
whether in his opinion, he made the 
impression on the jurymen sought. 

Mr. Mix is a member of Polar Star 
Lodge, No. 79, A. F. and A. M. He 
also holds membership in St. Louis 
Chapter, No. 8, of Royal Arch Masons, 
as well as of the Yale Club of New 
York, the American Bar Association 
and other organiations. 

On February 29,1908, he was wedded 
to Miss Irene Zent, a most estimable 
and charming young woman of Belle- 
ville, 111., and their home at 5830 West- 
minster place, is one of the neatest in 
St. Louis. 

To illustrate the great confideilce 
reposed in the young attorney by the 
courts, it might be mentioned here, by 
way of concluding this review, that 
he was appointed in 1909 by the St. 
Louis Circuit Court as special com- 
missioner to take depositions in the 
widely knowa litigation of Johnson vs. 
the Unted Railways Company, where- 
in the plaintiff is endeavoring to hold 
the defendants liable for obligations 
of the old St. Louis Transit Company. 
The litigation involves from $3,000,000 
to $10,000,000. In taking these depo- 
sitions nearly all the millionaires of 
the city appeared before him. 



JAMES ARTHUR ANDERSON. 



James Arthur Anderson was, I be- 
lieve, the first to adopt, and I am re- 
liably informed, is the only one at 
present who insists on carrying out 
every detail in proper sanitary meas- 
ures in the conduct of the immense 
establishment of which he is the offi- 
cial head. 

Mr. Anderson is a Canadian by 



birth, he having first seen the light 
of day in Goderich, Canada, forty-two 
years ago. His father, Thomas Ander- 
son, was also a Canadian, one of those 
sturdy, straight-forward type who have 
won for Canada the great reputation 
it maintains and for many years, in 
addition to his farming interests, did 
a large business in the raising of 



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stock.- He passed away about five 
years ago, and was a very actve man 
up to his death. 

The mother of J. Arthur Anderson, 
who, prior to her marriage was Miss 
MaiT McQuoid, was an English 
woman. 

The early education of young An- 
derson was received in the district or 
common schools of the Dominion, 
where he diligently applied himself to 
his studies, preparatory to entering 
Clinton College, at Clinton, Ontario. 
From this well known institution of 
learning Mr. Anderson was graduated, 
being a member of the large class of 
1889. 

Shortly after completing his studies 
and being accorded his diploma, Mr. 
Anderson decided to locate in St. 
Louis, and at the age of twenty-three 
we find him a resident of this city. 
He called at the office of the Munger 
laundry and asked for a position and 
was taken into the service of the com- 
pany as a wagon driver. 

The young man soon realized the 
great advantages that were open to 
one in St. Louis who were capable of 
taking hold. As a result, in order to 
thoroughly equip himself in a business 
way, after each day's hard work driv- 
ing his wagon, collecting and deliver- 
ing ■ laundry for his employers, he 
would attend night school, taking a 
course of business with Jones Com- 
mercial College, and graduated. The 
Munger Laundry Company lost no time 
in placing him in charge as manager 
of their business at Kansas City, Mo. 
For nine or ten years Mr. Anderson 
continued in that capacity and suc- 
ceeded in building up the largest laun- 
dry trade for his company of any other 
house in that city. He placed his 
whole energy into the business and 
went after it in every legitimate man- 
ner possible. 

While thus engaged Mr. Anderson 
came to a realization that although 
under existing conditions in laundries 
in all parts of the United States and 
Canada they were doing the best theV 
could, not a small amount of ingred- 
ients used by laundries, were injuring 
linens. Having no knowledge of chem- 
icals beyond that possessed by ordin- 
ary laundrymen, he was not in posi- 
tion to detect the real trouble. 

Forthwith, I find Manager Ander- 
son taking a full course in pharmacy, 
for the purpose of giving him an in- 



sight into various chemicals, thereby 
equipping himself for detecting the 
chemical compounds used, to the great 
detriment and injury of different kinds 
of fabrics. After completing his 
course of study in the College of Phar- 
macy, he resigned his position with 
the JMunger people in Kansas City, 
and immediately returned to St. Louis, 
where in company with D. L. Parrish, 
he succeeded in organizing what was 
known as the Parrish Laundry Com- 
pany, of which he was made vice-presi- 
dent and geiieral manager. About five 
years ago Mr. Anderson disposed of 
his interests in the company and or- 
ganized the J. Arthur Anderson Laun- 
dry Company, at 3968 to 3970 Olive 
street. 

He begun business in a comparative- 
ly small way, but the growth of the 
business during the past three years 
has been little short of marvelous, un- 
til today it is one of the largest in St. 
Louis, and undoubtedly the most san- 
itary, while the many young women 
who find steady employment there are 
treated in a, far more humane manner 
than ordinarily found. 

Mr. Anderson's personal magnetism 
has won for him hundreds of patrons, 
and he has made a rapid climb to the 
top rung of the ladder. In the social 
plane of life Mr. Anderson is just as 
well known and as popular as in the 
business world. In 1892 he was mar- 
ried to Miss Kathryn M. White, the 
charming and accomplished daughter 
of Colonel W. P. White, of Kansas 
City, and whose family is of the old 
f'Jjputh, her father had served as a 
ccL'Onel in the Confederate army dur- 
ing the civil war of half a century 
ago, and descends from an old Vir- 
ginia family. One son, Arthur Don- 
ald Anderson, is the child of this un- 
ion, and is now nine years of age. 

Mr. Anderson, in addition to his busi- 
ness and home life, finds time fre- 
quently for taking part in many im- 
portant matters that come before dif- 
ferent important bodies of which he is 
a member. Among these are the Mer- 
cantile Club, Masonic Club, Business 
Men's League, Horticultural Society, 
Amphion Club, Credit Men's Associa- 
tion and Advertising Men's League, 
and others. He is also a member of 
the Executive Board of the Manufac- 
turers' Association, and attends the 
Methodist Church. 



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HENRY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 



In the subject of the author's re- 
view, Henry Alexander HamiRon, St. 
Louis can point to another young coun- 
selor who has already attained for 
himself a reputation that many older 
members of the legal profession would 
give worlds to possess. But it has 
taken ability to achieve these ends and 
this Mr. Hamilton has. 

Mr. Hamilton is a native of St. 
Louis, and was born in 1877, his fath- 
er, Alexander Hamilton, being one of 
the leading coal merchants of the city 
for many years, and widely known 
throughout the entire Southwest. 

Young Hamilton attended the public 
institutions of St. Louis, and in 1895 
graduated with high honors from Cen- 
tral High School. After completing 
his common day schooling he decided 
to become a lawyer, and confided his 
idea to his parents. 

The result was that the young man 
entered the law department of Wash- 
ington University, and closely applied 
himself to his studies. In 1898 he 
graduated with high class honors, re- 
ceiving the prize for the best thesis 
submitted during the senior year. This 
is an honor all students strive for 
earnestly. 

Shortly after leaving school he 
opened his law office and entered upon 
the active practice of his chosen pro- 
fession. In the different courts, from 
the lowest to the highest tribunals, 
he has appeared, either as counsel 
for plaintiff or defendant, and with a 
success that has been marked, ''r^ 
the preparation of cases he has ex- 
hibited wonderful conception of the 
law, and has successfully carried to 



conclusion, litigation in which were 
involved many of the most intricate 
problems. 

In argument Mr. Hamilton has a 
forceful delivery, leaving an impres- 
sion on both judge and jury. 

In matters political Mr. Hamilton 
is a staunch Republican and with the 
exception of serving in the House of 
Delegates, has never sought public 
office. 

• He holds active membership in the 
Odd Fellows and is prominent through- 
out tlie state in the gatherings of 
that fraternity. He belongs to the 
Mercantile and other leading clubs of 
the city and takes an active and earn- 
est part in all matters, with a tendency 
toward advancement of the city's in- 
terests. 

In St. Louis are to be found many 
young men engaged in the practice of 
law, men who apparently have made 
splendid starts, young men who have 
enjoyed the highest possible advant- 
ages, but I do not know of one who 
has gained greater headway than the 
subject of my review. 

Mr. Hamilton's clientele is one of 
the most representative in the city, 
comprising the better class, almost 
exclusively. I have found in my in- 
vestigations that to control such a 
clientele, the lawyer, whether young 
or old, must be a man of marked abil- 
ity. Clients possessed of sufficient 
funds to warrant employment of the 
best talent intend to have the best 
obtainable, hence the rest may be left 
to the conclusion of my readers. It 
speaks for itself. 



ADOLPH ROBERT GRUND. 



I do not believe any young coun- 
selor in St. Louis has met with more 
marked success than the subject of 
my review — Adolph Robert Grund. He 
is a native St. Louisan, having been 
born in 1882. During his early days 
young Grund attended Peabody school, 
also night high school. From the lat- 
ter institution he graduated, being a 
member of the class of 1901. 

Even in his boyhood days Mr. Grund 
dreamed of big achievements he 
craved would be his. He wanted to 
become a great lawyer and set his 
mind upon becoming such, and right 
here I might say I believe was laid 
the solid foundation upon which Mr. 
Grund is today building his unprece- 
dented success. 



Having made up his mind to take 
up the legal profession, I find the 
young manastude ntinl903,matric -q 
young man a student in 1903, matricu- 
lating in the Missouri College of Law, 
by which he was honored with the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Law. Mr. Grund 
did not enjoy the luxurious advantages 
many of the great and able men of 
today had in their youthful days. Dur- 
ing the period between his school 
course and law studies he was engaged 
with one of the large printing estab- 
lishments of the city and put in many 
long hours of hard work. 

Following the completion of his legal 
studies young Grund was admitted to 
the bar, having just attained his ma- 
jority. That was in 1903. Since that 



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time he has closely applied himself, 
makihg a specialty of civil law almost 
exclusively, and today is recognized as 
one of the most able young counselors 
of the state. 

About a year following his admis- 
sion to the bar he was made general 
attorney for the Missouri, Arkansas 
and Southwestern road, which office 
he voluntarily resigned in 1905, pre- 
ferring to give his time and attention 
to the private practice of his chosen 
profession. His clientele had grown 
to such an extent as to demand more 
attention, hence his action. 

"Grund on the Laws of Private Cor- 
porations," a work on which Mr. Grund 
spent several years of the hardest 
character of work, is recognized as an 
authority, dealing with practically ev- 
ery problem involved in corporation 
litigation, and has won the highest 
commendation for its author. It com- 
prises several volumes and comment 
has been made upon it by some of 
the most distinguished lawyers in the 



United States. The work is of con- 
siderable volume in extent and char- 
acter, and has never been surpassed 
by even older lawyers of the bar. 

In matters political Mr. Grund is 
a staunch Republican. 

It was in 11306 that Mr. Grund was 
united in matrimony with Miss Mar- 
guerite Forkel, a native of New York, 
a charming and talented young wom- 
an, daughter of one of the most prom- 
inent business men of that section of 
the country. Mrs. Grund, I might add, 
in passing, is also a niece of the cele- 
brated painter-artist, Christopher W. 
Forkel, author of "The Wagon Black- 
smith," a handsome painting, the value 
of which is placed at more than fifty 
thousand dollars. She is a widely 
traveled woman, and has attended 
many notable gatherings in different 
parts of the world. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
Grund are extremely fond of rare 
paintings, Jaaving many lin their 
pretty home. 



DR. C. HAMILTON HUGHES. , 



A native St. Louisan, Dr. Charles 
Hamilton Hughes, is one of the fore- 
most physicians and surgeons of the 
Southwest, besides one of the best 
known medical educators in the coun- 
try, having held a high position in that 
training for years. 

Following the conclusion of his scho- 
lastic studies, young Hughes in 1858, 
entered Iowa College, at Davenport, 
and pursued his studies. In 1859 he 
was awarded his diploma by the St. 
Louis Medical College. For a while 
the young physician practiced his pro- 
fession in Warren County, Mo., but 
prior to going there he served as act- 
ing assistant physician in the United 
States Marine Hospital at St. Louis. 
During the civil war Dr. Hughes was 
assigned to the Missouri Volunteer 
Infantry as assistant surgeon, and then 
as surgeon. Several hospitals at dif- 
ferent periods were under his super- 
vision as chief surgeon, among them 
being McDowell's prison hospital. 
Hickory Hospital Post, St. Louis, and 
others, at all of which he was highly 
successful. When General Price made 
his last stand in Missouri, it was this 
young surgeon and physician who was 
placed directly in charge of freedmen 
and refugees. In 1865 Dr. Hughes re- 
ceived his discharge and immediately 
thereafter was appointed medical 
superintendent of the Missouri State 
Hospital for the Insane at Fulton, in 
which capacity he served five or six 
years. 



Since then he has been a lecturer 
and practitioner of nervous and men- 
tal diseases in St. Louis, where he 
has been highly successful, and has 
gained well-earned fame, not only as 
an active practitioner, but for many 
timely and valuable articles contribu- 
ted by his learned mind to medical 
journals and other periodicals, as well 
as his unprecedented success as an 
educator. 

''\He is today a member of the fac- 
ulty of medical institutions, the thor- 
oughness and reputations of which ex- 
tend to the farthermost corners of 
the universe, was dean of the faculty 
and professor of diseases of the nerves 
and dietrotherapy at the Medical Col- 
lege of Barnes University. He found- 
ed, in 1880, a publication "devoted to 
nervous and kindred diseases, under 
the title of "Alienist and Neurologist." 
In 1893 Dr. Hughes delivered an ad- 
dress before the first Pan-American 
Medical Congress, urging the estab- 
lishment of a national medicinal bu- 
reau, with a physician in charge, 
clothed with rank of a cabinet officer. 
At the time Dr. Hughes was presi- 
dent of the American Medical Editors' 
Association and his address attracted 
widespread attention and comment, 
not alone in the LTnited States of 
America, but throughout the wiiole 
civilized world. 

No member of the medical fraternity 
stands higher than the subject of the 
author's sketch, he having held the 



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presidency of the Mississippi Valley 
Medical Association in 1891, and 
served for a long period as member 
of the Judicial Council of the Amer- 
ican Medical Association, one of the 
greatst organizations of its kind in 
the world. In 1898 Dr. Hughes was 
chairman of the section on nervous and 
mental diseases of that body, and at its 
convention in San Francisco, delivered 
an address on "Medicine." 

He is a member of many of the fore- 
most medical societies of the United 
States, among wiiich are the Ameri- 
can Psychological Associaion and the 
American Neurological Society, while 
he has also served with gi-eat distinc- 
tion as president of the neurological 
section of the Pan-American Congress, 
as well as secretary. Of thefietaoinlu 
as well as secretary of the Medico- 
Legal Congress. Dr. Hughes has 
served as vice-president and held a 
similar position of two sections of the 
International IMedical Congress which 
was held in 1893. 

In addition to the foregoing Dr. 
Hughes holds actiye membership in 
the St. Louis Medical Society, the 
Missouri State Medical Society, New 
York Medico-Legal Society, honorary 
membership in the British Medico-Psy- 
chological Society, Chicago Academy 
of Medicine, and is a foreign member 
of the Russian Society of Neurology 
and Psychiarty. 

In addition to the large number of 
medical and professional organizations 
of which Dr. Hughes is a member, 
he also holds membership in organiza- 
tions of a different character. Amo'^/'^ 
these are the Loyal Legion and tne 
Missouri Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. Of the last 
named association, he is a member of 
the Board of Trustees. He is also a 
Scottish Rite Mason. 

Forty-nine years ago he was joined 
in wedlock'to Miss Mattie D. Lawther, 
a native of Fulton, Mo., and a most 
charming woman. Six children result- 
ed from the union, of which one, ]\Iiss 
Bessie Hughes, passed away while in 
the flower of beautiful young woman- 
hood. The others are Ray M., Charles 
C, Henry L., Clarence H. and Frank 
S. Hughes. 

Throughout the width and breadth 
of the civilized world are to be found 
thousands of medical practitioners, but 
I dare say no one is to be found whose 
record shines brighter than that of 
Dr. Charles Hamilton Hughes. His 
professional skill has easily gained for 
him rank with the most learned men 
in the country, eminent for years, in 
the daily practice of his profession. 

A native of Ireland by birth, a Mis- 



sourian by choice, no man has* ever 
emigrated to the United States and 
made greater headway in the commer- 
cial world than the subject of the 
author's review, William J. Kinsella, 
Sr., head of the Hanley and Kinsella 
Coffee and Spice Company of this city. 
Mr. Kinsella was born in 1846 in 
Ireland, his father being one of the 
most prominent architects in the 
country at that time. Young Kin- 
sella was afforded every educational 
advantage and was carefully trained. 
His first employment w^as with the 
largest wholesale house in Dublin. 
The young man had been told, and 
had read so much of America and 
the great fortunes being made in the 
States by young men that he was 
restless to get there, so when nine- 
teen years of age he packed his be- 
longings, and bidding family and 
friends farewell, boarded a ship for 
this country, arriving in New York 
City. 

The great civil war between the 
States of the Union w'as just about 
coming to a close at that time and 
chances of securing employment 
such as he most desired, were not 
many. However he made a try and 
called on the management of a large 
retail house in New York City, and 
sought employment. He was told 
that no such position was open at 
the time and that the only thing the 
house had to offer him was as wrap- 
per of bundles. Young Kinsella had 
ample grit about him and accepted 
the position. Afterwards he went 
with a large Baltimore firm, with 
which he continued until about 1870, 
when he decided to remove to Cleve- 
land, and it was in that city that he 
first entered business on his own re- 
sponsibility as a retail grocer, in com- 
pany with a brother. 

This business, I understand, was not 
as much of a success as young Kin- 
sella thought it ought to have been, 
hence he disposed of his interests, 
afterwai-ds coming to St. Louis where 
he immediately secured employment 
with Porter, Worthington and Com- 
pany. He later became manager of 
the Kingford-Oswego Starch Com- 
pany. 

So marked was his success with the 
starch company and so greatly was 
the company's business increased his 
managerial ability soon attracted the 
attention of other large concerns, and 
after leaving the starch company I 
next find him in charge as manager of 
the Thompson-Taylor Spice Company, 
of Chicago, 111. With this last named 
firm he remained as manager for 
about two or three years, and then 



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bought the business, establishing the 
firm of W. J. Kinsella and Company. 
Later on the business was incorpo- 
rated as the Hanley and Kinsella 
Coffee and Spice Company, and today 
it is the largest establishment of its 
kind in the entire southwest. 

He is a director in the Mercantile 
Tru^t Company, Mercantile National 
Bank, United Railways Company of 
St. Louis, Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
tion, Jefferson Hotel Company, Jef- 
ferson Hotel Realty Company, Boy 
Scouts of America, Father Dunn's 
Newsboy's Home, Hospital Saturday 
and Sunday Association; vice-presi- 
dent Calvary Cemetery Association; 



member of Business Men's League, 
City Club, Civic League, Manufactur- 
er's Association, Latin American Club, 
Noonday Club, Mercantile Club and 
the St. Louis Club. 

Mr. Kinsella is a man of much civic 
pride. Such acts are entirely charac- 
teristic of him. 

It was in 1880 that Mr. Kinsella was 
wedded to Miss Nellie Hanley, of New 
York. The couple have three chil- 
dren, two sons and one daughter. 
The above is but a brief resume, I 
might say, of the life record of Wil- 
liam J. Kinsella, Sr. St. Louis needs 
more men of his type for it is such 
who make large cities. 



EDWARD DEVOY. 



If there is a man in the city of St. 
Louis entitled to credit as a genuine 
booster that man is Edward Devoy. 

Edward Devoy was born in 1846 in 
a house located on ground now occu- 
pied by St. Patrick's parochial school, 
which insitutiion he attended as a boy, 
afterwards entering Benton school. 
Mr. Devoy is one of the self-made men 
of the city. 

It was in 1860 that the young man 
took up the trade of a printer and re- 
mained with a job printing house for 
about two years. He then associated 
himself with the tobacco trade and 
was thus engaged when he secured a 
position in the St. Louis postoffice as 
clerk. 

In 1873 he entered the coal trade 
arid in 1886 formed partnership rela- 
tions with E. R. Fenerborn. This ar- 
rangement continued until 1910, when 
the Devoy & Kuhn Coal and Coke 
Company was launched, and of which 
Mr. Devoy is president. 

Mr. Devoy throughout has proven 
one of the most active residents of the 
"fourth city." In 1911 his work in 
connection with the voting of the bond 
issue for funds to complete the city's 



free bridge across the Mississippi 
River aroused much attention. He is 
a quiet, unassuming man and has al- 
ways worked with the object in view 
for municipal improvement and not for 
personal gain or fame. 

From 1884 until 1888 he was a mem- 
ber of the St. Louis City Council, and 
as such demonstrated his capacity for 
the office, insisting on many badly 
needed improvements. He is a mem- 
ber of the Merchants' Exchange, Busi- 
ness Men's League and other large and 
highly influential bodies of St. Louis. 
Of the Merchants' Exchange he has 
served officially. 

For many years he served as a 
memher of the Board of Charity Com- 
missioners. He holds membership in 
the Legion of Honor, Knights of Co- 
■j^'Ci-uiUbus, St. Vincent de Paul's Society, 
'^anrl others. He is a devout communi- 
cant of the Catholic Church and has 
give-'i_ with a lavish hand to its sup- 
port. 

Mr. Bevoy in 1867 was united in 
marriage to Miss Maria Fallon, the 
beautiful ceremony taking place in 
St. Patrick's Church. The couple 
have had eight children. 



CHARLES PARSONS SENTER. 



One of the well known business men 
of St. Louis, who has achieved success 
through just dealings, is Charles Par- 
sons Seuter, president and treasurer 
of the Seuter Commission Company. 

He was born February 14th, 1870, at 
the home of his grandmother in Tren- 
ton, Tenn. His parents were resi- 
dents of St. Louis, his father, William 
M. Senter, being a prominent cotton 
factor and the original vice-president 
of the St. Louis Cotton Exchange, the 
next year becoming its chief executive 



official, serving a number of terms 
thereafter. In addition to this he was 
largely interested in establishing the 
St. Louis Cotton Compress Company, 
and the building of the St. Louis, Iron 
Mountain & Southern Railway and St. 
Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton 
Belt), which had so much to do with 
making St. Louis the great commercial 
center of the Southwest, where he was 
regarded as a captain of industry. The 
Senter Commission Company is the 
direct outgrowth of the interests estab- 



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lished by him and his brother-in-law, 
William T. Wilkins, in 1864, as Senter 
& Company. 

Charles Parsons Senter was named 
for Charles Parsons, one of St. Louis' 
most honored and distinguished bank- 
ers. In his early days he attended the 
Stoddard School, one of St. Louis' pub- 
lic schools, afterwards entering Smith 
Academy, a department of Washington 
University, graduating in 1S88, then 
attending the University of Virginia. 
After completing his studies Mr. Sen- 
ter was connected with one of St. 
Louis' banks, then was in the real es- 
tate business, then connecting himself 
with his father's business In 1893, in 
which he continued until his faher's 
demise in 1901, when the business was 
incorporated as the Senter Commission 
Company to take over these great in- 
terests, the subject of this sketch being 
its treasurer, and succeeded to the pres- 
idency upon the death of his brother, 
John Asa Senter, in the following year 
(1903), which he at present retains. 
Under his executive administration' of 
affairs the business of the house has 
continued steadily until today I doubt 
if there is another company in the 
entire State that does a larger commis- 
sion business, in which, the very foun- 
dation stone must of necessity be hon- 
esty and efficiency. 

In addition to this business Mr. Sen- 
ter controls other large interests in 
Missouri and elsewhere, being stock- 
holder and director as well as officer 
in a number of the financial institu- 
tions in the country. In 1908 and 
1909 he was president of the St. Louis 
Cotton Exchange, is a member of theV 
St. Louis Business Men's League and a/' 
strong advocate of the principles of 
Democrary, being a constituent mem- 
ber of the Jefferson Club, which was 
organized in 1889, and served several 
years as its secretary and is now treas- 



urer of the Democratic State Execu- 
tive Committee. Notwithstanding his 
close affiliation with the party of his 
distinguished father before him, Mr. 
Senter has never sought public recog- 
nition. He prefers to do what he can 
and looks for no reward except the 
good he can do. 

lie is an ex-president of the Tennes- 
see Society of St. Louis, a member of 
the St. Louis Club, Glen Echo Country 
Club and Missouri Athletic Club. He 
also served as grand marshal of the 
Olympic games held in connection with 
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 
1904, was chairman of the Inter- 
Scholastic and Marathon Committee of 
those games. 

Whilst the subject of the author's 
review does not pose as a public man, 
and has no wish to be so construed, he 
has worked unceasingly for the mate- 
rial advancement of St. Louis and has 
always been among those at the head 
of great movements that mean the 
promotion of interests of his home city. 
Every undertaking in which he has 
become interested has enjoyed marked 
progress, and he stands in the highest 
esteem of all who are acquainted with 
him. I sincerely wish there were more 
fueh men as Charles Parsons Senter in 
the Southwest. Were such the case 
much greater progress would have 
been easily recorded years ago. Mr. 
Senter's father was one of the leaders 
in the Baptist Church of the city and 
State, and was superintendent of the 
Sunday School of the Third Baptist 
Church of St. Louis for about seven- 
teen years. He v;as also one of its 
deacons and trustees, and for several 
years served as president of its City 
Mission Board. The son, Charles P. 
Senter, is one of the trustees of the 
same church, and in addition is presi- 
dent of both the City and the State 
Mission Boards. 



DR. W. H. MAYFIELD. 



An instance of where perseverance 
and self-application count is found in 
the magnificent record that has been 
made by the subject of my review, Dr. 
William Henderson Mayfield, in charge 
of one of the largest and most modern 
sanitariums in St. Louis and a man 
who has met with the most signal 
success. 

Dr. Mayfield is a native Missourian 
and was born at Patton, in 1852. His 
early educational training was had in 
Carleton Institute and Fruitland Nor- 
mal Institute, and at tne early age of 
eighteen began to teach. Later, under 
the preceptorship of Dr. J. H. Smith, 



at Sedgewickville, Mo., he began the 
study of medicine. That was in 1874, 
after which he matriculated in St. 
Louis Medical College, from which he 
graduated in 1883. From the begin- 
ning young Mayfield decided to make 
a specialty of surgery, and to this no 
doubt is attributed his great success 
as an operator. 

After a short period of practice in 
Mayfield, Mo., he came to St. Louis 
and located, where he was tendered 
and accepted the chair of Materia 
Medica, Therapeutics and Children's 
Diseases in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. In 1894 he founded the 



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Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, the first 
denominational institution of its li;ind 
in tlie world. Under his administra- 
tion it progressed, and surrounded by 
able assistants he accomplished a mar- 
velous work indeed. He severed his 
connection with it in 1896, his private 
practice becoming such as to con- 
stantly demand his time and attention. 
An idea of what I mean may be had 
when it is known that during the 
years of practice of Dr. Mayfield he 
has officiated in about 10,000 opera- 
tions. 

For years he has made a specialty 
of abdominal and gynecological sur- 
gery, performing many of the most 
difficult operations. It was in 1874 
that the distinguished surgeon was 
wedded to Miss Ellen C. Sitzes, and 
hand in hand they have progressed 
through life, relieving worlds of suffer- 
ing and untold misery and establish- 
ing havens of refuge, the very charac- 
ter of which has stamped both as 
Christian people. The great Mayfield 
Sanitarium w'as erected under the per- 
sonal supervision of the devoted wife, 
even to looking after the financial end 
of it, and her heart and soul are 
wrapped up in its success. Their 
three children are all dead, the last 
one, named after his distinguished 
father, passing away at the age of 
twenty-one, when just budding into 
young manhood, a victim of the 
dreaded white reaper, tuberculosis. His 
death proved a hard blow to the par- 
ents and it was many months before 
they recovered to such an extent as to 



continue in the even tenor of their 
way. 

William H. Mayfield, Jr., was a typi- 
cal young Missourian, a boy of broad 
intellectual views, a devoted and obe- 
dient son. He contracted the awful 
disease while at college, and as soon 
as it made itself manifest his father, 
Dr. Mayfield, worked as man never 
worked before. It was the life of his 
son at stake, and the loving parent and 
country-famed surgeon resorted to 
everything known to medical science, 
but without avail. God claimed his 
own in due course of time. 

Following the demise of this young 
man Dr. and Mrs. Mayfield, both of 
large means, decided to expend their 
all in an effort to discover some chan- 
nel through which consumption could 
be cured, or at least arrested. The 
Will Mayfield College, Marble Hill, Mo., 
and the Mayfield Sanitarium stand to- 
day as great monuments to that lost 
son. In foreign fields the money of the 
:\Iayfields has erected hospitals and the 
great endowment fund is working here 
and there and everywhere, and nothing 
is being left undone. 

Members of the Baptist faith, the 
father and mother have thousands 
directly interested in their brave and 
heroic fight for freedom from the great 
white plague. The Mayfield Sanitarium 
is one of the most thoroughly and mod- 
ernly equipped in the Southwest, and 
is but an indication of what may be 
expected from two such people as Dr. 
W. H. Mayfield and his noble com- 
panion through life — his wife. 



FREDERICK ARTRCJ.R MAYHALL. 



A native Missourian, having been 
born in St. Louis, Frederick Arthur 
Mayhall. in the practice of law and as 
a minister of God's Gospel, has ad- 
vanced with marked rapidity, until 
today he stands in the front rank. Mr. 
Mayhall comes of a family of four 
children, all of whom have gone to 
their reward with his lone exception. 
His mother died when he was a mere 
babe and he was reared by his grand- 
mother, Louisa B. Mayhall. In the 
common schools of New London young 
Mayhall began his education. He then 
went to Canton, Mo., where he entered 
the Christian University and prepared 
for the ministry. After completing his 
ministerial studies Mr. Mayhall took 
charge of churches in Louisiana, Van- 
dalia and St. Louis. 

Before entering the ministry the sub- 
ject of my review did considerable 
newspaper work. At this time he had 



assumed charge of a church at Louisi- 
ana, Mo., and on deciding to study 
law resigned his pastorate and en- 
tered the law school of Washington 
University. This in 1903. In 1905 
he was admitted to the bar as a prac- 
ticing attorney. 

Notwithstanding Mr. Mayhall re- 
signed his church pastorate to take up 
law, that fact did not in the least 
deter him from the great interest he 
had in religious matters and he has 
devoted much time to such, and w'hile 
studying law he preached in a church 
at Maplewood. a suburb of St. Louis. 
Since graduation in law he has filled 
various pulpits and so forceful, so 
pleasing is his oratory that he has 
at all times drawn large congrega- 
tions to his services. 

If Mr. Mayhall, in taking up the 
general practice of the legal profes- 
sion, has severed his relations in a 



59 



practical capacity with the church I 
would not hesitate to say that God's 
work had lost one of its most devoted 
advocates, but now that he stiU main- 
tains that same work I can but add 
that both professions have fared well 
indeed. 

Mr. I\Iayhall was wedded about nine- 
teen years ago to Miss Frances R. 
Briscoe, of New London, Mo. One 
child, a boy, born in 1897, is the result 
of the union. 

The father of F. A. Mayhall was a 
native of the old blue grass State 
(Kentucky). In politics he M-as con- 
sidered a prominent man and highly 
influential in the ranks of the Republi- 
can party. Not only did he serve with 
distinction as high sheriff of Ralls 
County, Mo., but edited newspapers at 
various times and with much success, 
and v/as a member of the Grand Army 
of the Republic. 

Mr. Mayhall's idea of a large 
central or uptown church is such as to 
merit the warm approval of all classes. 
He contends that if some large build- 



ing in the uptown section of St. Louis 
was secured (one of the theaters 
would answer the purpose nicely) and 
the best speakers of the country se- 
cured, it would be found that the 
house each Sunday would be literally 
packed. Hundreds of people passing 
through this city on Sundays visit 
moving picture amusement, due to 
their inability to attend a church on 
account of. its being at least half an 
hour's ride from the leading hostelries. 
The pastors of St. Louis are complain- 
ing of this, still it is the church that 
has run away from this class of com- 
municants and not the latter from the 
church. In Chicago the plan Is car- 
ried out ideally in every respect. Great 
preachers, world-famed orators and 
men of international reputation oc- 
cupy the rostrum and hundreds of 
people are turned away at each service, 
which is absolutely interdenomina- 
tional. The Coliseum building is too 
far out to answer the purpose, but one 
of the uptown theaters could be had 
for a nominal sum, or if necessary, a 
structure could be erected. 



PAUL BAKEWELL, JR. 



Another younger member of the S't. 
Louis legal fraternity who has made 
remarkable headway since his admis- 
sion to the bar is Paul Bakewell, Jr., 
son of one of the most noted patent 
lawyers in the United States, whose 
practice in the courts of many com- 
monwealths of the Union has won foe 
him a magnificent reputation, r t 

Paul Bakewell, .Tr., is a nativfe Mis- 
sourian. He was born in St. Louis in 
1889. During his early days the young 
man attended St. Louis University, 
where he diligently applied himself, 
and in 1908 was graduated therefrom. 

He afterwards attended Washington 
University. Mr. Bakewell read law 
under his distinguished father for a 
long time, and in this manner pos- 
sessed a great advantage over many 
other young men, who were compelled 
to depend upon theoretical study. In 
his father's office he took a keen inter- 
est in all legal matters, and when 
finally admitted to the bar as a 
practicing attorney was regarded as 
one of the best equipped young men 
to undergo the rigid examination that 
is invariably required. Mr. Bakewell's 
percentages were all that could be re- 
quired and he passed without the 
slightest difficulty. 

While Paul Bakewell, Sr., specializes 
in patent, trademark and copyright 



law the subject of my review — the son 
— is a general practitioner. Since en- 
tering upon the active practice of his 
profession Mr. Bakewell has met with 
signal success. He is associated with 
his father in practice, another great 
advantage that means a good deal. 

Politically Mr. Bakewell affiliates 
with the Democratic party, and whilst 
he has never sought public recognition 
as to office he has always exerted his 
efforts in behalf of the party's inter- 
ests. The family are communicants of 
the Roman Catholic Church and have 
ahvays contributed liberally towards 
its support. 

In June, 1909, Mr. Bakewell was 
joined in marriage with Miss Mary 
Fullerton, one of the wealthiest young 
women of the Southwest, she owning 
a large amount of the most valuable 
property in the city and State. The 
couple have two children, both boys, 
Joseph Scott and Paul Bakewell III. 

Mr. Bakewell holds active member- 
ship in several of the leading organi- 
zations in the city, among which are 
the Noonday, Normandie Golf, City, 
and Racquet Clubs. In the profession 
he is generally regarded as having an 
unusually bright future before him 
and is highly esteemed by all with 
whom he has become acquainted, so- 
cially or professionally. 



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ADOLPHUS BUSCH. 



A native German, a United States 
resident by claoice, no man in ttie 
Southwest enjoys a higher standing 
than Adolphus Busch, head of one of 
the largest brewing enterprises in the 
world. 

Reaching tliis city from Mainz, Ger- 
many, in 1857, tlie young man clerked 
on river steamers, after which he en- 
tered the malting business two years 
later. In 1861 Mr. Busch wedded the 
daughter of the late Eberhard An- 
heuser, proprietor at that time of what 
was known as the "Bavarian Brew- 
ery." This plant, which had an annual 
capacity of about 8,000 barrels, was 
bought by Mr. Busch in 1865 and in- 
creased, until in 1873 it had an annual 
output of nearly 20,000 barrels. About 
this time Mr. Busch discovered a 
method of bottling beer by which it 
could be kept in all climes, the result 
of which has made him an immense 
fortune. 

The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Asso- 
ciation was incorporated in ISSO. The 
annual output of this tremendous plant 
at present is more than 2,000,000 of 
barrels. The business today is freely 
conceded to exceed that of any other 
plant of its character in the country. 



In addition to his large interests in 
St. Louis Mr. Busch is personally 
interested in several other large brew- 
ing plants, besides serving officially in 
large financial institutions. 

He is largely interested in bonds 
and stocks of many corporations and 
director in many institutions. August 
A. Busch, a son, is associated with 
his distinguished father in the con- 
duct of this vast business enterprise 
and closely following in his footsteps. 
Mr. Busch maintains a magnificent 
winter home in California, to which he 
travels annually in his palatial private 
car "Adolphus." A special structure 
was erected some years ago adjoining 
the brewing plant for the exclusive 
housing of this modern palace on 
wheels. 

Mr. Busch is a very philanthropic 
man. He believes in doing all he can 
for charity and during the awful earth- 
quake and fire in San Francisco was 
among the first to render aid, sending 
his check for $100,000. To Washington 
University he gave $100,000, while to 
others he has donated $50,000, and still 
to others many other donations en- 
tirely too numerous to mention. 



Dr. W. G. MOORE. 



A Kentuckian by birth, Missourian 
by choice, no man in the Southwest^> 
has advanced more rapidly in the pro- \ 
fession of medicine than Dr. William - 
Grant Moore. Dr. Moore was born in 
Fayette County, Ky., in 1853. He at- 
State and afterwards the Kentucky 
University. After finishing his prep- 
aratory education. The young man 
next entered Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, one of the greatest colleges of 
Virginia. 

Having decided to make the practice 
of medicine his life-work, the young 
man entered the medical department of 
the University of Louisville, remaining 
one season. He then went to Phila- 
delphia, Pa., where he continued medi- 
cal studies in Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege and graduated in 1876. During 
the, latter part of the same year Dr. 
Moore came to St. Louis and began to 
lay the foundation for the great career 
that has marked his progress since 
that time. The young practitioner was 
well qualified and readily overcame 
obstacles experienced by all young 
men starting out in life and soon con- 
vinced older members of the profes- 

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sion, as well as the public, of his 
•iuj^iirior knowledge of medicine. 

Dr. Moore had been in practice but a 
few years v/hen called to the chair of 
Histology, Therapeutics and Materia 
Meclica in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. In 1887 he assisted in 
establishing Beaumont Medical College 
and was appointed to the professor- 
ship of Clinical Medicine. The year 
following he was selected for the pro- 
fessorship of the Principles and Prac- 
tice of Medicine. Dr. Moore bears the 
reputation of being a most successful 
instructor and demonstrator and pos- 
sesses the ability of imparting to 
others his ov/n great knowledge. 

Dr. Moore controls a large private 
practice. He holds membership in a 
number of the leading medical organi- 
zations of the country and has several 
times been honored with offices in 
them. Among these are the St. Louis 
Medical Society, Missouri State Medi- 
cal Society, St. Louis Obstetrical and 
Gynecological Society, American Medi- 
cal Association, Medico-Chirurgical So- 
ciety, and others. 

Dr. Moore has served as medical 



referee for the Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, of New York, National Life 
Insurance Company, of Vermont, Le- 
gion of Honor, and others. 

In 1879 he was united in marriage 
with Miss Etolia North, daughter of 
one of the oldest merchants of the 
Southwest, who for years was actively 
engaged in business in St. Louis. The 



couple have three children, two daugh- 
ters and one son. 

Dr. Mcore has served as president 
of the St. Louis Medical Society, Mis- 
souri State Medical Society, and the 
St. Louis Obstetrical and Gynecological 
Society, as well as vice-president of 
the great American Medical Associa- 
tion. 



HARRY BARTOW HAWES. 



Distinguished lawyer of ^Missouri 
and a recognized leader of Democracy 
aptly describes the subject of my re- 
view — Harry Bartow Hawes. Mr. 
Hawes is a native of the blue grass 
commonwealth — Kentucky, where ia 
1869 he was born in Covington, the son 
of S. N. and Susan E. Hawes. 

During early life young Hawes at- 
tended the schools of his home com- 
munity and made rapid headway. Dur- 
ing his classical studies he.begun prep- 
arations for the legal profession and 
after attending the St.' Louis Law 
school graduated in 1896. This in- 
stitution has the record of turning out 
many graduates, who in after years 
have become the greatest lawyers in 
the country, and Mr. Hawes has well 
maintained that distinction. 

Shortly after Mr. Hawes' admittance 
to the bar he took up regular practice 
in this city, since which time his rise 
has been rapid, and his work marked 
with success. 

Mr. Hawes, either as counsel for 
plaintiff or defense, has appeared in 
considerable litigation, much of whi'Cfi 
involved many of the most intricate 
and difficult problems of law. In argu- 
ment before court and jury Mr. Hawes 
is forceful in delivery, carefully build- 
ing un his case as he proceeds and 
unfolding it in such vivid reality as to 
leave the desired impression. 

Mr. Hawes is a member of the well- 
known le'gal firm of Johnson, Houts, 
Marlott and Hawes, the practice of 



which is not confined to this state 
alone, but includes practically all 
states of the Union. 

Politically, Mr. Hawes, a staunch 
Democrat, believes strongly in the 
principles of that great party and was 
once its nominee for the governor- 
ship. No man in Missouri has worked 
harder for Democracy than he, and in 
all great Democratic gatherings he 
may be counted upon, his counsel and 
advice being almost constantly sought, 
while throughout the Southwest he is 
recognized as a Democratic leader. 

During the administrations of Gov- 
ernor Lon V. Stephens and Governor 
Alexander M. Dockery, Mr. Haw'es was 
president of the St. Louis Police 
Board, and the magnificent work he 
accomplished while serving in that 
capacity is well remembered. Mr. 
Hawes was married, in 1899, to Miss 
E. E. O. Robinson, and the couple 
have two children, Peyton and Eppes. 
Mr. Hawes during the hot months of 
the year usually spends the season on 
his pretty little farm near Kirkwood, 
Mo., where he enjoys much needed 
rest and relaxation from the business 
cares of the world. 

He holds active membership in a 
number of the leading clubs and or- 
ganizations of the city, county and 
state, am'ong which are the bar asso- 
ciations, the Athletic, St. Louis, Jef- 
ferson and other clubs. He and his 
family are communicants of the Epis- 
copal Church. 



CHARLES H. HUTTIG. 



There is not a better known man 
in Missouri than Charles H. Huttig, 
president of the Third National Bank, 
of St. Louis. After graduating from 
the high school in his native Iowa, he 
entered the service of a large firm in 
IMuscatine, that state, in capacity of 
accountant, being but sixteen years of 
age, .and when nineteen was a stock- 
holder in the firm of Huttig Brothers' 
^lanufacturing Company, as well as as- 
sistant manager. 



He came to St. Louis in 1885, after 
which he organized the Huttig Sash 
and Door Company, with paid-in capi- 
tal of forty thous'and dollars, and be- 
came its executive officer. In a short 
tiri:e the capital was increased to 
$100,000. 

In 1897 was elected to presidency of 
Third National Bank, the deposits 
jumping from about $4,000,000 at time 
he assumed charge up to more than 
$35,000,000 at present. Was member 



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of St. Louis School Board from 1891 
to 1896. Recognized gold wing of 
Democratic party in 1896, the tremen- 
dous vote accorded, clearly proving 
his magnificent judgment. 

Throughout his residence in this city 
Mr. Huttig has closely associated him- 
self with any and everything that had 
the slightest tendency along purely 



legitimate lines for the material ad- 
vancement of St. Louis. 

He holds active membership in not 
a few of the leading business, bank- 
ing, professional and social organiza- 
tions of the city, and is generally re- 
garded as one of the ablest and most 
conservative financiers in the United 
States. .'1 



HARRY JAMES BOSWELL. 



Harry James Boswell, author of this 
interesting little volmue, is a typical 
Southerner. He was born In Memphis, 
Tenn., October 19, 1S74, and during 
his early days attended the public 
schools of his native city, after which 
he finished his education in two well 
known colleges In Memphis. 

Coming from a literary family it was 
natural his tendency should be in the 
same direction. At the age of fifteen 
his father, Capt. James R. Boswell, 
purchased him a small printing outfit 
and the younger Boswell began publi- 
cation of a small weekly paper de- 
voted to the interests of traveling men, 
his father having followed that voca- 
tion for many years. This periodical 
suspended after several months. 

Mr. Boswell then entered the book 
field and sold the biography of the late 
Jefferson Davis, the great Confederate 
Chieftain. Following this he worked 
on several country newspapers and in 
1896 associated himself with the old 
Memphis Daily Herald. He remained 
in that capacity for several months. 
In May, 1898, Mr. Boswell and Mis?; 
Marion Thomas Stephens were weddbd, 
the result of a telephone romance. 
There have been six children, the re- 
sult of this union, four of whom are 
living: Marion Raymond, aged 11; 
Harry J., Jr., aged 9; Adelaide Flor- 
ence, aged 6, and Margaret Eleanora, 
aged 4. 



Mr. Boswell in 1897, in company 
with Joseph K. Almon, established 
the Memphis Beacon, which was pub- 
lished for several months before he 
severed his connection with it, due to 
failing health, being confined to his 
home for several months. After recov- 
ering Mr. Boswell established the Mem- 
phis Times, a political newspaper is- 
sued Sunday morning, and success- 
fully edited it for about ten years. 

In 1910 the oldest daughter of Mr. 
Boswell began to decline in health. 
The family physician, Dr. Frank S. 
Raymond (since dead), advised change 
of climate. Accordingly Mr, Boswell 
and his family immediately left for 
Minneapolis. There he became a mem- 
ber of the reportorial department of 
the Minneapolis Tribune. He remained 
in that position for some time, after 
which he went with the Daily News, of 
the same city. 

Finally he established the Minne- 
apolis Criterion, a weekly publication, 
^>>nt due to lack of proper support, was 
( compelled to give it up. Shortly after- 
\wards he went to St. Louis and be- 
cSb'r a member of the editorial staff 
of the Globe-Democrat, with which he 
remained for nearly a year, resigning 
his position in order to complete the 
work on this volume. He is still a 
resident of St. Louis, and engaged in 
literary work. 



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St. Louisans with Records 



INDEX 



Jf« Page 

Joseph Wingate Folk 3 

Judge Henry Samuel Priest 4 

James Parrish Dawson 5 

Dr. Washington E. Fischel 6 

John Hogan Boogher 6 

Anna Sueed Cairns 7 

Joseph P. Graham 9 

Judge Chester H. Krum 10 

Millard F. Watts 11 

Henry W. Peters 11 

Judge Albert Dexter Nortoni 13 

Frank Layng Talbot 14 

William Francis Carter 15 

Dr. Armant H. Ohmann-Dumesnil. .16 

Dr. Jules Baron 16 

J. Carter Carstens 17 

Paul Bakewell 18 

Dr. Horatio N. Spencer ..19 

Dr. Harvey Gilmer Mudd 20 

Dr. Isaac H. Cadwallader 20 , 

Dr. John B. Shapleigh '•"■^i 

Dr. William Engelbach i. .22/ 

S. M. Breckinridge Long ^^^23 

Dr. Herman Tuholske 23 

Dr. Harry Sturgeon Crossen 25 

Gerrit H. Ten Broek 26 

Dr. John M. Grant 27 

Dr. William E. Wilson 27 

Otto Ferdinand Karbe 28 

Alphonso Chase Stewart 29 

William Butts Ittner 31 

Theodore F. W. Zimmermann 31 

Hugh Kiernan Wagner 32 

Robert E. Collins 33 



Page 

Edwin W. Lee 34 

Thomas Bartlett Harlan 35 

Joseph Samuel Carr 36 

Louis Theodore Nolker , 37 

Richard A. Jones 37 

Judge C. Orrick Bishop 38 

John .Martin Holmes 39, 

Judge Henry Stewart Caulfield 39 

Dr. Walter C. G. Kirchner 40 

Dr. Frank J. Lutz 40 

George D. Barnard 41 

Matthew Given Reynolds 43 

Charles Philip Jolmson. 43 

John H. Gundlach 45 

Andrew J. O'Reilly 45 

Colin M. Selph 46 

Senator James A. Reed 48 

Samuel Broaddus Jeffries 49 

Charles Porter Johnson 50 

George Edward Mix 51 

James Arthur Anderson 52 

Henry Alexander Hamilton .54 

Adolph Robert Grund 54 

Dr. C. Hamilton Hughes 55 

Edward Devoy 57 

Charles Parsons Senter 57 

Dr. W. H. Mayfield 58 

Frederick Arthur Mayhall 59 

Paul Bakewell, Jr 60 

Adolphus Busch 61 

Dr. W. G. Moore • 61 

Harry Bartow Hawes 62 

Charles H. Huttig 62 

Harry James Boswell 63 



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